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