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Professor Sir Kenneth Calman (born 1941) has been
Chancellor of the
University of Glasgow, his alma mater, since January 2006.
Calman graduated from the University of Glasgow 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 a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in
1996.
He is the former
Vice-Chancellor and Warden of
Durham 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.
He was announced as chair of a
commission to review
Scottish devolution in March 2008.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians, the
Royal College of Surgeons and the
Royal Society of Edinburgh.He enjoys collecting cartoons and sundials.
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