Professor Sir Michael Adrian Richards, CBE MD FRCP DSc(Hon) (born 14 July 1951) is a leading British oncologist. Since 1999, he has been the National Cancer Director in the UK Government's Department of Health.[1]
Richards attended the Dragon School in Oxford,[2] and Radley College.[3]
Prof. Richards is an expert on cancer.[4][5] He was an Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) research fellow in medical oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London (1982–86), and then an oncology consultant at Guy's Hospital in London (1986–95), becoming a Reader in 1991.[6] He was clinical director of Cancer Services at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London (1991–99) and Sainsbury Professor of Palliative Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital from 1995. He was head of the Academic Division of Oncology at King's College London from 1998–99 and chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2006–08.
He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1993, Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) in 2000, and Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPHM, now FFPH) in 2002.[6] He received his CBE in 2001 and his knighthood in 2010. He has been a trustee of the Science Museum in London and Marie Curie Cancer Care.