Sir Kenneth Charles Calman (born 25 December 1941) is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon, oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, and then England.
[5] In 1974, Calman was appointed to the chair of clinical oncology and became dean of postgraduate medicine at The University of Glasgow in 1984.
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.
There was also 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.
[6] He chaired its inquiry on the Ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries[7] from 2000–2002, and was a member of the Working Party on Public health[8] from 2006–2007.
[12] He has written 15 books, mainly on medical topics, and many papers on medicine, health and science.
[13] Other Commission members include former Lord Advocate Colin Boyd, former Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace, and Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow.
He married Ann Wilkie in 1967, and has a son and two daughters, one of whom is the comedian Susan Calman.