Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich

Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich, of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark CBE ( born January 6, 1933) is a British physician, university teacher and politician of the Conservative Party, which is a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1989.

Life

Physician and university teacher

After visiting the Hutchesons ' Grammar School in Glasgow and St Paul's School in London McColl graduated in medicine at the University of London and was from 1967 to 1971 surgeon at St Bartholomew 's Hospital and Associate Dean of the local teaching hospital. Then he took over in 1971 a professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital, where he worked until 1999, where he was also director of the Department of Surgery of this hospital between 1985 and 1999.

In addition, McColl was 1984-1999 Advisory surgeon the British Army, and at the same time from 1987 to 1993 head of the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine ( School of Medicine ), King's College London. In addition, he was 1986-1994 Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and belongs since 1995 to the Board of Directors. McColl acted further between 1987 and 1991 as Vice - Chairman for the Department of Disability Services ( Disablement Services Authority ) and after 1991 to 1994 as president of the Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Member and Deputy Speaker of the Upper House

By Letters Patent of July 25, 1989 McColl was raised as a life peer with the title Baron McColl of Dulwich, of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Conservative Party.

During his membership in the House of Lords, he was deputy between 1994 and 2002 Speaker of the House of Lords and also Vice Chairman of Committees ( Deputy Chairman of Committees ). He was also the 1994-1997 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major and also belonged between 1994 and 1995 the House of Lords Committee on Euthanasia as a member.

During this time he was 1994-1997 president of the Association of endoscopic surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and since 1996 has been president of The Leprosy Mission, a Christian organization to combat leprosy. After McColl was between 1985 and 1994 President of the Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London, he then took over from 1994 to 2002 the office of Chairman of the Board of this hospital. Later was Lord McColl, the 1997 Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1997-2010 spokesman for the opposition faction of the Tories for health.

Since 1998, he is one of the board members of the charity Mercy Ships and is also since 2000 Chairman of Mercy Ships in the UK. Furthermore, he was between 1998 and 2004 Chairman of the James Allen 's Girls ' School in Dulwich and also since 2001, is one of the managers of St Paul 's School. With a short break he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth of Nations in Britain since 1999.

Since 2000 he is member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and since 2010 at the same time the House of Lords Committee on AIDS and HIV. In addition, he serves since 2000 as President of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College, and since 2011 as Vice President of the Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth of Nations in Britain.

Other honorary offices, honors and awards

In 1979 he became a member of the Livery Company the Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries and 1986 Member of the Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons, where he Upper Warden, was between 1999 and 2000, and most recently Master 2000-2001 Deputy Master of that company in 1998.

In the course of his long career McColl has won several awards and received, among other things, the 2002 Great Scot Award and at the same time the price of the U.S. National Maritime Historical Society. He is also a Freeman of London and Fellow of King's College London ( 2001), the Royal Society of Surgeons of England, the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

In 2007, Lord McColl Knight of the Order of Mercedarians.

Publications

• Intestinal Absorption in Man, (co-author, 1975)
• NHS Data Book (co-author, 1983)