Barbara Jane Bain is an

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hematologist Hematology (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to ...

and

oncologist Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''ó ...

. She is also a professor at the

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and a consultant at

St Mary's Hospital, London St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, wh ...

. She has authored numerous books on hematology such as the 2020 core curriculum m on hematology.

Life

Bain grew up in Australia and was educated in Maryborough,

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. She traveled to England in late 1971.EHA Hematology: Interview with Barbara Bain
/ref> Her career choice was influenced by mentors Sir John Dacie, David Galton and Daniel Catovsky.Barbara J. Bain - Bloodmed profile
She has published various teaching materials as well as academic papers from her research in haematology. She was part of the International Working Group on Morphology of MDS and also in the group which devised the 2008

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classification of tumours of the lymphoid haematopoietic systems. She has translated two editions of an Italian work on the

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of the blood. In 2017, Bain received a lifetime achievement award from the British Society for Haematology for her international clinical and academic contributions to the field.

References

External links

Website jointly compiled by Bain and her husband
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bain, Barbara J. British medical researchers Australian women medical doctors Australian medical doctors Australian haematologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom Place of birth missing (living people) Academics of Imperial College London Physicians of St Mary's Hospital, London Women medical writers Australian medical writers