Career
Professor Calman was appointed Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, at the Scottish Office in 1989. He was then appointed Chief Medical Officer for England, by the United Kingdom government, at the Department of Health in 1991-98, a period that included the BSE crisis. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1996, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 1998, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University. 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. A new college was also opened in 2006, Josephine Butler College. 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 closure of the Department of Applied Linguistics in 2003 and Department of East Asian Studies in 2007. Professor Calman retired as Warden in 2006 and was succeeded by Professor Christopher Higgins.
Professor Calman was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2000-2008. He chaired its inquiry on the Ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries from 2000-2002, and was a member of the Working Party on Public health(2006-2007)
On 23 January 2006, it was announced Professor Calman had been elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow by the General Council of the University, taking around sixty per cent of the vote against opponent Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, a former MEP and noted jurist and son of John MacCormick, former Rector of the University.
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