Kenneth Calman
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Professor Sir Kenneth Calman is the current Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, a position he has held since 1998. His time as vice-chancellor has seen 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. In 2006, a new college in Durham opened, Josephine Butler College.
On 23 January 2006, it was announced that Sir Kenneth had been elected the next Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, which he will take up full time following his retirement from Durham in September 2007.
Prior to becoming vice-chancellor, 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. Prior to his civil-service posts he worked in academia, holding a number of professorships at the University of Glasgow. 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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