Michael Chan, Baron Chan

Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan of Oxton in the County of Merseyside MBE ( born March 6, 1940 in Singapore, † 21 January 2006, Liverpool) was a British pediatrician and politicians of Chinese descent, who between 2001 and 2006 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords was. Chan was by Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, the second upper house member of Chinese origin.

Life

Chan was the son of a Christian convert Chinese school rector in Singapore and graduated after visiting the Raffles Institution to study medicine at Guy's Hospital, the teaching hospital of King's College London. After graduating, he returned to Singapore, where he was Lecturer and Consultant of Pediatrics at the National University of Singapore.

1974 returned Chan, who was primarily concerned with questions regarding hematology, back to London and became a doctor of pediatrics at the members of the University of London Institute of Child Health of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he carried out research on von Willebrand 's disease. He then worked from 1976 to 1994, as Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant of Pediatrics at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and helped particularly in the training of physicians and pediatricians from India. For his services he was in 1991 a member of the Order of the British Empire.

In 1994 he took the post of Director of the National Health Service ( NHS) belonging to ethnic health unit in Leeds, which funded, among other health programs vulnerable ethnic minorities. In addition, he was Director since 1999 of two health foundations in the region North West England and Chairman of the Task Force for ethnic minorities in the Directorate of Public Health and the Working Group on the Regulation of acupuncture. In the following years he was also involved in the Commission on the future of multiculturalism in the UK chaired by Bhikhu Parekh.

Chan was raised by a Letters Patent dated June 2, 2001 as a life peer with the title Baron Chan of Oxton in the County of Merseyside in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was on 2 July 2001 his Introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the Upper House he belonged to the group of so-called Cross Bencher and was by Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, the second Sino- burly upper house member.

He was also a member of the Press Complaints Commission and 2004 President of the Wirral Multicultural Organisation 2002.

Publications

• Diseases of Children in the Tropics and Subtropics (1991 ),
• Robertson's Textbook of Neonatology, co-author ( 3rd edition, 1999)
• Parekh Report of the Commission on the Future of Multicultural Britain, co-author (2000)