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 Dr.
Eduardo D. Bruera is currently Professor of Medicine,
as well as the F. T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment
of Cancer, and heads the Department of Symptom
Control and Palliative Care at the University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Before coming
to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Bruera
was the Director of the Division of Palliative
Care Medicine at the University of Alberta and
the Clinical Director of the Edmonton Regional
Palliative Care Program. He was also Professor
of Oncology and the Alberta Cancer Foundation
Chair in Palliative Medicine at the University
of Alberta. He has worked closely with the World
Health Organization; in 1994, he was the President
of the World Health Organization/Pan American
Health Organization Regional Focal Point in Palliative
Care for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well
as the Coordinator of the Pan American Health
Organization. Since graduating from the University
de Rosario in Argentina in 1979, Dr. Bruera's
medical specialty has been the study and management
of the major symptoms associated with patients
who have terminal cancer.
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