Dr Eleni Lester

Dr Eleni Lester is a London-based NHS doctor and member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), she currently works as a clinical fellow in an inpatient specialist palliative care unit and plans to pursue for specialty training in palliative medicine next year. She completed an intercalated BA in medical humanities in 2015 and, more recently, a three-month course in creative fiction writing at The Faber Academy. She is currently enrolled in the Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Her interests centre on how reflective, narrative and creative practices can shape meaning-making, wellbeing and care in the context of serious illness and dying. She is currently conducting a service evaluation of a novel poetry-based narrative intervention for patients and family caregivers in an inpatient palliative care setting.