Michael Chan, Baron Chan
Politician, Noble person
1940 – 2006
Who was Michael Chan, Baron Chan?
Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan, MBE was a Singaporean-British physician and politician, of Chinese descent.
Chan was born in Singapore, where his family were members of the Christian minority. He was educated at Raffles Institution, and moved to the United Kingdom to study medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He trained as a paediatrician, specialising in blood diseases. He returned to Singapore after his studies, becoming a lecturer and consultant paediatrician at the University of Singapore, but returned to the UK in 1974 to study Von Willebrand's disease at the University of London Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He moved to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1976, where he remained until 1994 as a senior clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician. He was director of the NHS 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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- Born
- Mar 6, 1940
Singapore - Also known as
- Dr. Michael Chan, Baron Chan
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- Chinese Singaporean
- British Chinese
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Singapore
- Profession
- Education
- Raffles Institution
- Died
- Jan 21, 2006
Liverpool
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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