Donald Acheson

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Sir
Donald Acheson
Chief Medical Officer for England
In office
1 January 1983 – 31 December 1990
Preceded byHenry Yellowlees
Succeeded byKenneth Calman
Personal details
Born(1926-09-17)17 September 1926
Epidemiologist

Sir Ernest Donald Acheson

Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1991. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1][2]

Early life

Acheson was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926.

MA, DM, Fellow 1968, Honorary Fellow 1991). His elder brother, Roy Acheson (also Merchiston and Brasenose alumnus), is Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College.[citation needed
]

Career

Acheson studied medicine at the

Acting Squadron Leader
(1953–55).

From 1957 until 1968 he worked at the University of Oxford, as Fellow of University College (1957–59), medical tutor in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Radcliffe Infirmary (1960), Director of the Oxford Record Linkage Study and Unit of Clinical Epidemiology (1962–68), and May Reader in Medicine (1965).

His association with the

Royal South Hampshire Hospital. He held both positions until 1983. In 1968 he became the first Dean of the new Medical School at the University of Southampton, serving in that capacity until 1978. In 1977 he was Visiting Professor at McMaster University
.

From 1979 until 1983 he was Director of the

Medical Research Council
Unit in Environmental Epidemiology.

He then became Chief Medical Officer (1983–1991),

The Advocate and New York Native into Britain in diplomatic bags to avoid them being seized by customs so that he could keep abreast of developments relating to HIV/AIDS.[6]

After leaving office as Chief Medical Officer he held positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London.

In 1997 he was commissioned by the new Blair government to chair the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, which led to the publication of the eponymous Acheson Report. In 1998 he delivered the Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians.

Acheson was President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (1979) and the

University of Ulster (DSc
1994).

Autobiography

References

  1. ^ Donald Acheson's obituary, The Times
  2. ^ Sheard, Sally (2006), The Nation's Doctor, London: The Nuffield Trust
  3. ^ "Acheson, Sir Ernest Donald (1926–2010)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. PMC 2070022
    .
  5. ^ BBC News (11 October 2000)
  6. S2CID 149134259
    .

Further reading

  • Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London, 1999), p. 5

External links
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