Carl Johan Fürst, MD, PhD

About

Carl Johan Fürst is professor of palliative medicine at Lund University, Sweden. He has a background in oncology and has practiced palliative medicine for the last decades. His academic training includes a doctorate in medical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He had an adjunct chair in palliative medicine at the Institute until the he joined the present position as full professor at Lund University. He has published in the areas of radiation epidemiology, and more recently on topics related to palliative care such as quality indicators, quality register, and bereavement, particularly on teenagers losing a parent to cancer.

Dr Fürst was one of the driving forces behind one of the country’s first and best renown palliative care units at Stockholms Sjukhem which became an important platform for teaching in palliative care to medical students at the Karolinska Institutet and to postgraduate training for physicians. His present academic focus in the areas of teaching, research and development, relates to quality aspects of palliative care, including symptoms, clinical guidelines, communication skills, leadership and bereavement. Dr Fürst was Invited faculty at the Leadership Development Initiative (LDI) in San Diego, USA with a special responsibility the development of a mentor curriculum.