Paediatrician, palliative care doctor, ethicist
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Richard D. W. Hain MBBS, MD, DPhil, FRCP(Edin), FRCPCH, MSc, MSt, Dip Pal Med, PGCertEd, FHEA
Professor Hain is a paediatric palliative care physician in Wales, UK. As a medical student in 1984 he decided to specialise in palliative medicine in children. In 1986 he graduated in medicine from Guy's Hospital (King's College London) and, after training in various centres in the UK and Canada, became triply certified in paediatrics, paediatric oncology and adult palliative medicine.
In 2000 he was appointed in Wales as the UK’s first academic in paediatric palliative medicine. In 2009, he led a successful submission to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to offer specialist certification in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, and became the first chair of its Specialist Advisory Committee.
He became an NHS consultant in 2012 and as clinical lead for the specialty in Wales now heads up a country-wide network comprising a wide range of professionals caring for children with malignant and non-malignant life limiting conditions. For some years he chaired the the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Clinical Ethics Committee, and continues to chair the Board’s Individual Patient Funding Review Panel.
Professor Hain's main academic interests are ethics in children and symptom therapeutics in children. He holds doctorates in pharmacology from King's College London and moral theology from the University of Oxford. He is author of a book on medical ethics in children (‘Childness and the Myth of the Unfinished Human’) and on symptom therapeutics (‘Oxford Handbook of Paediatric Palliative Medicine’).
He has edited three editions of the award-winning Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care in Children, as well as more than 150 research papers, reviews and book chapters. He He is Honorary Professor in Clinical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Swansea University and Visiting Professor at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at University of South Wales. He retains a strong interest in postgraduate education in both ethics and paediatric palliative care and is Theme Lead for Ethics and Professionalism at Liverpool University School of Dentistry.
In 2013 he was awarded the Maruzza Foundation's Vittorio Ventafridda award in Palliative Medicine and in 2017 Kidney Wales' Salaman/Morgan Ethics Travel Fellowship.
Professor Hain is a paediatric palliative care physician in Wales, UK. As a medical student in 1984 he decided to specialise in palliative medicine in children. In 1986 he graduated in medicine from Guy's Hospital (King's College London) and, after training in various centres in the UK and Canada, became triply certified in paediatrics, paediatric oncology and adult palliative medicine.
In 2000 he was appointed in Wales as the UK’s first academic in paediatric palliative medicine. In 2009, he led a successful submission to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to offer specialist certification in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, and became the first chair of its Specialist Advisory Committee.
He became an NHS consultant in 2012 and as clinical lead for the specialty in Wales now heads up a country-wide network comprising a wide range of professionals caring for children with malignant and non-malignant life limiting conditions. For some years he chaired the the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Clinical Ethics Committee, and continues to chair the Board’s Individual Patient Funding Review Panel.
Professor Hain's main academic interests are ethics in children and symptom therapeutics in children. He holds doctorates in pharmacology from King's College London and moral theology from the University of Oxford. He is author of a book on medical ethics in children (‘Childness and the Myth of the Unfinished Human’) and on symptom therapeutics (‘Oxford Handbook of Paediatric Palliative Medicine’).
He has edited three editions of the award-winning Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care in Children, as well as more than 150 research papers, reviews and book chapters. He He is Honorary Professor in Clinical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Swansea University and Visiting Professor at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at University of South Wales. He retains a strong interest in postgraduate education in both ethics and paediatric palliative care and is Theme Lead for Ethics and Professionalism at Liverpool University School of Dentistry.
In 2013 he was awarded the Maruzza Foundation's Vittorio Ventafridda award in Palliative Medicine and in 2017 Kidney Wales' Salaman/Morgan Ethics Travel Fellowship.
Doctorates in medicine, pharmacology, moral theology
UK accredited (certified) in palliative medicibne, paediatrics, paediatric oncology
PGCertE, FHEA
