Irene J. Higginson OBE is a British professor, head of department and the director of King's College London's Cicely Saunders Institute.
[1] Higginson has a medical degree from the University of Nottingham.
[2] Higginson is the director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, at King's College London, the world's first purpose-built institute of palliative care.
[2] She was appointed an OBE in 2008 for services to medicine.
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