Irene J. Higginson is a

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professor, head of department and the director of

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's Cicely Saunders Institute. Higginson has a medical degree from the

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. Higginson is the director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, at King's College London, the world's first purpose-built institute of

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. She was appointed an OBE in 2008 for services to medicine.

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