Barbara J. Bain
Barbara Jane Bain is an eminent haematologist who is admired as a teacher. She is a Professor in Diagnostic Haematology at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, and Honorary Consultant Haematologist at St Mary's Hospital, London.
Life
Barbara Bain grew up in Australia and took the exams of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She went to England in the late 1960s to further her career abroad,[1] and after some time back in Australia, in Brisbane, returned to the UK. One reason for choosing haematology as her speciality was that it combined laboratory and clinical work.[1] Influential mentors in her career were Sir John Dacie, David Galton and, later on, Daniel Catovsky.[2]
She says her main interests are diagnostic haematology, writing and teaching.[2] As a teacher she is much respected[3][4] and has published various teaching materials and frequently-reissued textbooks as well as numerous other academic writings.
She was part of the International Working Group on Morphology of MDS and also in the group which devised the 2008 WHO classification of tumours of the lymphoid haematopoietic systems.[5]
She has translated an Italian work on the morphology of the blood,[6] and gives Italian as one of her hobbies. Art history, visiting art galleries and the study of St Sebastian are other interests of hers.[2]
Select bibliography
- Systemic pathology Vol.2, Blood and bone marrow, edited by S. N. Wickramasinghe; with contributions by Barbara J. Bain, Churchill Livingstone 1986
- Blood Cells, Gower Medical 1988
- Leukemia diagnosis: a guide to the FAB classification, Gower Medical 1990
- Bone marrow pathology, with David M. Clark, Irvin A. Lampert. Blackwell Scientific 1992
- Blood cells : a practical guide, Blackwell 1995
- Haematology, Churchill Livingstone 1998
- Haemoglobinopathy diagnosis, Blackwell Science 2001
- A-Z of haematology, with Rajeev Gupta, Blackwell 2002
- Variant haemoglobins: a guide to identification, Wiley-Blackwell 2010
- Myeloid malignancies: an atlas of investigation and diagnosis, with Estella Matutes, Oxford: Clinical Publishing 2010
- Haematology: a core curriculum, Imperial College Press 2010
- Chronic myeloid leukaemias, Oxford: Clinical Publishing 2012
References
- 1 2 EHA Hematology: Interview with Barbara Bain
- 1 2 3 Barbara J. Bain - Bloodmed profile Archived September 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ New England Journal of Medicine review
- ↑ Wiley book description
- ↑ MDS conference speaker's CV
- ↑ Giuseppe d'Onofrio, Gina Zini, trans. B.J.Bain Morphology of the blood, Butterworth-Heinemann 1998