Since 2000, Dr. Richard Hain has been clinical lead for paediatric palliative medicine in Wales, leading a country-wide network comprising a wide range of professionals caring for children dying from malignant and non-malignant life limiting conditions. He graduated in medicine in 1986 from Guy''s Hospital (now part of King''s College London) and in 1999 became triply certified in paediatrics, paediatric oncology and adult palliative medicine. He holds doctorates in opioid pharmacology from King''s College London, and moral theology from the University of Oxford. In 2000 he was appointed in Wales as a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics. 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. For some years he chaired the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Clinical Ethics Committee, and he now Chairs the Individual Patient Funding Review Panel. Alongside his continuing work as a clinician in paediatric palliative medicine, Professor Hain has developed a research interest is bioethics, especially as it relates to children at the end of life.

He has authored around 150 research papers, reviews and book chapters. He has edited three editions of the award-winning Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care in Children and is co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Paediatric Palliative Medicine. 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 has taught ethics to students of diverse disciplines including medicine, law, philosophy and theology. Dr. Hain has received a number of awards including the Maruzza Foundation''s Vittorio Ventafridda award in Palliative Medicine and Kidney Wales'' Salaman/Morgan Ethics Travel Fellowship. Alongside his continuing work as a clinician in paediatric palliative medicine, Professor Hain has developed a research interest is bioethics, especially as it relates to children at the end of life. He has authored around 150 research papers, reviews and book chapters.

He has edited three editions of the award-winning Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care in Children and is co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Paediatric Palliative Medicine. 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 has taught ethics to students of diverse disciplines including medicine, law, philosophy and theology. Dr. Hain has received a number of awards including the Maruzza Foundation''s Vittorio Ventafridda award in Palliative Medicine and Kidney Wales'' Salaman/Morgan Ethics Travel Fellowship.