- Kenneth Calman
Sir Kenneth Calman, KCB (born 1941) has been Chancellor of the
University of Glasgow , his alma mater, since January 2006.Calman graduated from the University of Glasgow with subsequently the degrees BSc, MB ChB, PhD and MD and lectured in Surgery before his appointment to the Cancer Research Chair in Glasgow in 1974. He became Professor and Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education in 1984.
He was Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health from 1991, a period that included the BSE crisis, and before that Chief Medical Officer for Scotland at the
Scottish Office from 1989. He was made aKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1996.He is the former
Vice-Chancellor and Warden ofDurham University , a position he held from 1998 until 2006. His time as vice-chancellor saw the expansion and integration of the campus at Stockton-on-Tees, with two colleges being established there in 2001 and the campus being renamed Queen's Campus during the 2003 Golden Jubilee celebrations. There has also been a return to the teaching of medicine at Durham, with students doing their pre-clinical studies at Queen's Campus before transferring to Newcastle to complete the clinical part of their degrees. His time as vice-chancellor also saw the tragic closure of the Department of East Asian Studies in 2007. In 2006, a new college in Durham opened,Josephine Butler College .In September 2007, he became the current president of The
Boys' Brigade . He will address his first Council meeting as President of The Boys' Brigade at Tullianne Castle near Edinburgh in September 2008.He was announced as chair of a commission to review
Scottish devolution in March 2008. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7311840.stm BBC NEWS | Scotland | Devolution review body launched ] ]He is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians , the Royal College of Surgeons and theRoyal Society of Edinburgh .He enjoys collecting cartoons and sundials.See also
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Commission on Scottish Devolution References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/371891.stm Kenneth Calman: The cautious doctor (BBC)]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7311840.stm BBC News: Devolution Review Body Launched]
* [http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2033&type=P Biography, University of Glasgow]
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