Ana Carvajal Valcárcel, Professor of Palliative Care at School and Hospitalization Nurse at the University of Navarra, has been appointed as the new coordinator of at . Clínica Universidad de Navarrahas been appointed new coordinator of doctoral program at Nursing Science.

Carvajal, who graduated from the University of Navarra in 1993 and Master's Degree in Nursing in 2000 at the University of Glasgow, defended her thesis in 2010 at the University of Sheffield (UK). Her research is mainly focused on cancer patients and those receiving palliative care. assessment Her doctoral work was goal to develop a version of a symptom test for cancer and palliative care patients at Spanish . The test was called the Edmonton Symptom assessment Scale (ESAS), a questionnaire that simply assesses the patient's perception of ten common physical and psychological symptoms. It has been widely used in many countries in both clinical internship and research and is now commonly used at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

professor and research work

Her professional work has included the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in the department of Oncology and Palliative Medicine, which she has combined with teaching at the School of Nursing, where she has been a professor since 2009. She has also published about twenty scientific publications and is the director of several works of research. 

Finally, he has made several stays in centers such as St. Luke's Hospice Hospital (Sheffield) and Royal Hallamshire Hospital and in the Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain and Palliative Care at the Hospital "Los Montalvos" in Salamana.