Giants of Cancer Care® Program Inductees
Supportive, Palliative, and/or Geriatric Care
Eduardo Bruera, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Bruera is chair of the Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine, a professor of medicine, the F.T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment of Cancer, and medical director of the Department of Supportive Care Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
- Among his accolades, Bruera founded the first academic fellowship program in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada. At The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bruera established the Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, which has become the largest clinical and academic palliative care program in the world.
- He is credited with the development of the Edmonton Injector, the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System, and the patient-reported outcome–Edmonton Staging System for Cancer Pain. The latter considers pain mechanism, incident pain, psychological distress, addictive behavior, and normal cognition to classify and stage patients for optimal management of their pain.
- Bruera has deepened the field’s understanding of autonomic failure in advanced cancer, led the development of hypodermoclysis and proctoclysis as methods of hydration, and pioneered the use of methadone for the management of cancer pain.
- Bruera has helped to establish numerous palliative care programs in Latin America, India, and Europe. He has held leadership roles with the World Health Organization, the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, and the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care.
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