Dr. Pippa Hawley is a Palliative Medicine Specialist based at BC Cancer in Vancouver. She founded the BC Cancer Pain & Symptom Management/Palliative Care Program at BC Cancer in 1997. Pippa was the Head of the UBC Division of Palliative Care from 2012-2022 and is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine. Pippa's research interests are in the integration of palliative care into disease management, and the assessment and treatment of severe cancer pain and and other symptoms. She co-led the creation of the Methadone4pain online training program and co-authored the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC's Handbook on Methadone for Analgesia.
