| Sir Kenneth Calman
has been Vice-Chancellor and Warden since October 1998.
As Vice-Chancellor, Sir Kenneth
has recently been nominated to represent Universities UK on the
Education Committee for the General Medical Council. He has joined the
Confederation of British Industries northern regional council and the
board of the North East Chamber of Commerce. He also chairs the board of
the Universities for the North East, the body he helped to establish
with fellow Vice-Chancellors at Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and
Teesside.
With the support of the
Nuffield Trust he has been a principal mover in setting up a national
network to study the closer involvement of the arts and humanities with
health and medicine. A co-ordination Centre for the network has opened
in Durham.
Before taking up his
appointment at the University, Sir Kenneth was Chief Medical Officer at
the Scottish Office Home and Health Department from 1989 and then as
Chief Medical Officer in London (1991-98). Sir Kenneth also served for
many years as a prominent clinical professor and he is an author on the
treatment and care of cancer patients, and other health issues. His most
recent book is A Study of Story Telling, Humour and Learning in
Medicine*.
He was born Christmas Day 1941.
He began his medical training at the University of Glasgow in 1959, and
took a BSc in Biochemistry before graduating in medicine in 1967. After
working on aspects of dermatology for his PhD, he completed his hospital
training, and then spent two years as the Medical Research Council
Clinical Research Fellow at the Chester Beatty Research Institute in
London. He returned to the University of Glasgow in 1974 as Professor of
Oncology and held a series of senior posts, including Dean of
Postgraduate Medicine and Professor of Postgraduate Medical Education.
Sir Kenneth has served as Chairman of the Executive Board of the World
Health Organisation and the European Environment and Health Committee.
He is a Fellow of several academic and professional bodies including the
Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal
Society of Edinburgh. In 1996 he became a Knight Commander of the Order
of the Bath.
He is married with a son and
two daughters and his recreations include gardening, golf, sundials,
collecting cartoons and Scottish literature.
*Published by The Nuffield
Trust, 2000
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