Michael Chan, Baron Chan
British doctor (1940-2006)
Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan, (Chinese: 曾秋坤; pinyin: Céng Qiūkūn; 6 March 1940 – 21 January 2006), was a Singaporean-born British physician and life peer who sat in the House of Lords between 2001 and 2006.
Early life and education
Chan was born in Singapore on
6 March 1940 to Chieu Kim Chan, then headmaster of Raffles Institution and his wife Rosie.
Chan attended Raffles Institution before moving to the United Kingdom to study medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He was trained as a paediatrician, specialising in blood diseases. He returned to Singapore after his studies, becoming a lecturer and consultant pediatrician at the University of Singapore, but returned to the United Kingdom in 1974 to study Von Willebrand's disease at the University of London Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Medical career and politics
Chan moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1976, where he remained as a senior clinical lecturer and consultant pediatrician until 1994. He was the director of the National Health Service Ethnic Health Unit in Leeds between 1994 and 1997, and was successively director of two NHS primary health trusts from 1999.
He was also active in the field of race relations, serving as an advisor to the Home Secretary and then as a Commissioner for the Commission for Racial Equality between 1990 and 1995, and as a member of the Sentencing Panel from 1999. He became a member of the Press Complaints Commission in 2002, and he was chairman of the Chinese in Britain Forum. He was a committed Christian and elder of the Liverpool Chinese Gospel Church, undertaking various charitable works, for which he was appointed MBE in 1991.
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