Prof Sir Michael Peckham

Career: Capt RAMC 1960-62; clinical res cncl scholar MRC Paris 1965-67, dean Inst of Cancer Res London 1984-86 (sr lectr 1972-74, prof 1974-86), civilian conslt to RN 1975-86, dir Br Postgrad Med Fedn 1986-90, dir of res and devpt Dept of Health 1991-95, dir Sch of Public Policy UCL 1996-; chm Nat Educn Res Forum 1999-; special tstee Guy's Hosp & St Thomas' Hosp Bd of Special Tstees 1996-2000; pres: Euro Soc of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 1984-85, Br Oncology Assoc 1986-88, Fedn of Euro Cancer Socs 1989-91; ed-in-chief European Journal of Cancer 1990-95, fndr Bob Champion Cancer Tst; memb New Millennium Experience Co Bd 1998-99; former memb special health authy: Hosps for Sick Children Gt Ormond St, Brompton and Nat Heart Hosp, Hammersmith Hosp, Imperial Cancer Res Fund (vice-chm Cncl); artist: solo exhbns Oxford, London and Edinburgh 1965-; Hon DSc Loughborough Univ of Technol 1992; Dr (hc): Université de Franche-Compté Besançon 1991, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1993; hon fell St Catharine's Coll Cambridge 1998; foreign assoc memb Nat Acad of Sciences Inst of Med Washington 1994; FRCP, FRCR, FRCPath, FRCPG, FRCS