Catherine Calderwood

Catherine Calderwood
FRCOG FRCPE
Born (1968-12-26) 26 December 1968
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality Northern Irish
Education Newnham College, Cambridge
University of Glasgow
Occupation consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist
Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Medical career
Field Obstetrics and gynaecology

Catherine Jane Calderwood FRCOG FRCPE (born 26 December 1968) is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.[1]

Early and personal life

Calderwood was born in Belfast on 26 December 1968 the eldest of two daughters of Lesley and James Calderwood. Her mother is a psychiatrist and her father is an orthopaedic surgeon.[2] She attended school at Methodist College, Belfast, and studied a for BA at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1990. She went on to take her medical degree at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1993.[1][3]

Calderwood has two daughters and one son.[1][2][4]

Career

Clinical

After working in hospital clinical medicine, Calderwood undertook obstetrics and gynaecology training in South East Scotland from 2001, and then further specialist clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London in 2003-2004.[5] Since appointment in 2006, she has worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with an interest in obstetric medicine in NHS Lothian. She has a special interests in maternal medicine, obstetric ultrasonography and high risk pregnancy.[6]

Calderwood is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[7]

Administration

Calderwood was an expert panel member on the Morecambe Bay Investigation, commissioned by the Department of Health to look into the maternity and neonatal services at Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust between January 2004 and June 2013.[8]

Calderwood was NHS England's national clinical director for maternity and women’s health[9] and in this role promoted the first friends and family test in 2014.[4]

Scottish medical office

In March 2013, as the Scottish Government's senior medical officer for women’s and children’s health, she helped launch Maternity Care Quality Improvement Collaborative.[10]

Calderwood was Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Scotland, supporting Dr Aileen Keil who had been Acting Chief Medical Officer of Scotland from April 2014 following the retirement of Sir Harry Burns from the post in April 2014. In February 2015, Calderwood was announced as the new Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, succeeding Burns.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Who's who (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Dr Catherine Calderwood on giving Scotland a dose of "realistic medicine"". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  3. ↑ "Dr Catherine Calderwood named new chief medical officer". BBC News. BBC. 27 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 Calderwood, Catherine (30 January 2014). "Patient feedback will help improve maternity services". Health Service Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "NHSScotland Event, SECC, Glasgow 23 - 24 June 2015: Plenary Speakers: Catherine Calderwood". NHS National Services Scotland. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Freeman, Tom (27 February 2015). "Women's health expert is Scotland's new Chief Medical Officer". Holyrood. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "New Chief Medical officer" (Press release). Scottish Government. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Morecambe Bay Investigation: Our governance". UK Government. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "About us: Who's who- the NHS England board: National Clinical Directors". NHS England. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  10. ↑ Buckland, Lyndsay (7 March 2013). "Never too late to quit smoking, pregnant women told". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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