Kenneth Calman
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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.[1]
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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| Preceded by Professor Evelyn Ebsworth |
Warden and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham 1998 to 2007 |
Succeeded by Professor Christopher Higgins |
