Mark is a palliative medicine hospital consultant and clinical director at Velindre University NHS Trust in Wales. His teaching/research activities at Cardiff University include advance care planning, acute palliative care, technology & new media and DNACPR decision making.
He is the founder of TalkCPR.com and has a national lead role to improve public understanding on topics relevant to care in the last years of life and at the extreme ends of medicine. He has delivered a Ted Talk on subtleties in language that are relevant to modern healthcare delivery, and writes for international news outlets like the Washington Post, where his article was an editorial top pick of the year.
