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Professor Sir Graeme Catto MBChB(Hons), MD(Hons), DSc, hon.LlD, FRCP, hon.FRCGP, ILTM, FMedSci, FRSE is President of the General Medical Council, Vice-Principal at King's College London and Dean of the Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals' Medical & Dental School. He was knighted in 2002 for services to medicine and medical education.
After graduating in Medicine in 1969, he obtained a Harkness Fellowship to study at Harvard University. He is an honorary physician with an interest in renal medicine and has published widely on different aspects of nephrology and immunology.
With a particular interest in renal medicine, nephrology and immunology, he began his scientific and clinical career at the University of Aberdeen in the 1970s and over the next 30 years rose to become Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Vice-Principal. Sir Graeme was instrumental in the development of Aberdeen’s pioneering Institute of Medical Sciences.
Until October 2000 he was Vice-Principal, University of Aberdeen and Chief Scientist at the Scottish Executive Health Department. Currently he is Chairman of Robert Gordon's College and a member of SE London Strategic Health Authority.
Sir Graeme serves, or has served, on a number of national committees, including the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, the Joint Medical Advisory Committee, the General Medical Council, and the Royal Colleges of Physicians. He has also served on the Board of Management for the Scottish Institute of Sports Medicine and Sports Science and was a non-executive Director of Liberty Occupations Health Ltd. He is Treasurer of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
His public service career includes a spell as Chief Scientist at the Scottish Executive and Vice-Chairman of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Knighted in 2002 for services to medicine and medical education, he is currently a member of SE London Strategic Health Authority and he received an honorary doctorate from Aberdeen in 2002.
Married to a lawyer, Sir Graeme has one daughter and one son.
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