Irene J. Higginson 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.[2]