THE SPEAKERS

Molly Case

Molly Case is an author, spoken word poet and nurse born and brought up in London. She is currently working in palliative and end of life care. Molly achieved national recognition after performing her poem ‘Nursing the Nation’ at the Royal College of Nursing in the UK. Her book HOW TO TREAT PEOPLE was out with Viking, Penguin in 2019. She is currently working on her second collection of spoken word poetry and a debut novel.

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born in 1946 and was brought up in Pinner in north-west London. He attended state schools before studying medicine for two years before switching to English at Wadham College Oxford. Since then, he has worked at broadcasting, writing poetry, stories, adult non-fiction and scripts, while spending a good deal of time doing shows based on his poems and non-fiction, in theatres, arts centres, libraries, and literary festivals. He studied for an MA and Ph.D. and has been Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths University of London since 2014. His books ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’, ‘Getting Better’, ‘Good Days’ and ‘The Advantages of Nearly Dying’ are all concerned with medicine and health.

Dr Katie Amiel

Dr Katie Amiel is a GP and clinician for NHS Practitioner Health and Ambassador for the charity, Doctors in Distress, specialising in healthcare professional mental health and wellbeing. She is also a certified coach, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy trainer, accredited Lifestyle Medicine doctor and ‘Doctor in Residence’ at Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy.

She founded The Bigger Picture Collaboration in 2018, working with organisations such as NHS Charities Together, RCGP, Kings University and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to improve healthcare professional wellbeing by through creativity, the arts and humanities. As a result of her work, she was nominated for a RCGP Inspire Award for Outstanding Contribution. She started Restore, a Bigger Picture project with Doctors in Distress, in 2021, supporting healthcare staff mental health through creativity, which has included a collaboration with the Royal Literary Fund.

Katie recently co-founded The Survive & Thrive Collective which provides expert resources, community, coaching and creative outlets to parents and professionals supporting children with additional needs.

She edited the book ‘These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS’ for NHS Charities with Deborah Alma (The Poetry Pharmacy) and Michael Rosen. Her letter to Michael Rosen features in his bestseller ‘Many Different Kinds of Love’.

Joe Cavalli Price

Joe Cavalli-Price is a Welsh-Italian musician and founder of Music in Hospices CIC, a creative arts organisation reimagining our relationship with palliative and end-of-life care. Named a Deutsche Bank Top 20 Social Enterprise in 2024 & 2025, his advocacy for
palliative care equality has received international recognition, with features on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Today Programme, and BBC Breakfast reaching over 5 million people. His three-pillar creative art programme is now supporting thousands of families at Hospices
throughout the UK. He has been invited as A keynote speaker to the Hospice UK and St Christopher’s Hospice Conferences and his research has been published by the British Medical Journal.

In 2025, he published his first children’s book ‘Little Elephant Visits the Hospice’, supporting young families negotiating a terminal illness diagnosis. This has now become the basis of hospice and end-of-life education for over 150 health and social care settings and Child Bereavement UK. He is now leading the world’s first photojournalism project in the Hospice sector with British Photographic Journal’s Portrait of Humanity and Portrait of Britain Award Winner, James Clifford-Kent and BAFTA nominated videography Amy Newman.

A passionate educator, Joe has worked as a vocal coach and musical director for institutions including Italia Conti, Trinity Laban, East15, and as a vocal animateur for Live Music Now. He has coached internationally renowned West End performers including Ramin Karimloo
(Phantom of the Opera), Zizi Strallen (Wicked), Ruthie Henshall (Chicago), Melissa James (Moulin Rouge), and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (Hadestown).

A former Oxford International Song Festival and Leeds Lieder Young Artist, Joe has performed at Wigmore Hall, Oxford Song Festival, and the International Lieder Festival Zeist. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2026, for distinguished services to music and society.