Michael Chan, Baron Chan

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Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan MBE (born March 6, 1940 in Singapore , † January 21, 2006 in Liverpool ) was a British pediatrician and politician of Chinese descent who was a life peer member of the House of Lords between 2001 and 2006 . Chan was the second House of Lords of Chinese origin after Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn .

Life

Chan was the son of a Chinese school principal who had converted to Christianity in Singapore and, after attending the Raffles Institution , studied medicine at Guy's Hospital , the teaching hospital of King's College London . After completing his studies, he returned to Singapore, where he became a lecturer and consultant for pediatrics at the National University of Singapore .

In 1974 Chan returned, who also dealt in particular with questions of hematology , back to London and became a doctor for pediatrics at the University of London's Institute for Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital , where he also did research on Von Willebrand's disease . He then worked from 1976 to 1994 as Senior Clinical Lecturer and Pediatric Advisor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, particularly helping with the training of doctors and paediatricians from India . For his services he became a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 .

In 1994 he became director of the National Health Service (NHS) ethnic health unit in Leeds , which among other things financed health programs for unprotected ethnic minorities . He has also been the director of two health foundations in the North West England region since 1999 and chaired the ethnic minority task force in the Public Health Directorate and the Working Group on the Regulation of Acupuncture . In the following years he was also involved in the Commission for the Future of Multiculturalism in Great Britain, chaired by Bhikhu Parekh .

Chan was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated June 2, 2001 as a life peer entitled Baron Chan , of Oxton in the County of Merseyside . Shortly thereafter took place 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 crossbenchers and was the second upper house member of Chinese descent after Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn.

In 2002 he also became a member of the Press Complaints Commission and in 2004 President of the Wirral Multicultural Organization.

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)

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personal data
SURNAME Chan, Michael, Baron Chan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chan, Michael Chew Koon, Baron Chan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2006
Place of death Liverpool