Catherine Calderwood

Catherine Calderwood MA Cantab MRCOG MBChB FRCP (Edin) is the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.

Early and personal life

Calderwood studied at the University of Cambridge, before graduating with her medical qualification from the University of Glasgow.

Calderwood has three children.

Career

Clinical

After working in hospital clinical medicine, Calderwood undertook obstetrics and gynaecology training in South East Scotland from 2001, and then further specialist clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London in 2003-2004. Since appointment in 2006, she has worked as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with an interest in obstetric medicine in NHS Lothian. She has a special interests in maternal medicine, obstetric ultrasonography and high risk pregnancy.

Calderwood is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Administration

Calderwood was an expert panel member on the Morecambe Bay Investigation, commissioned by the Department of Health to look into the maternity and neonatal services at Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust between January 2004 and June 2013.

Calderwood was NHS England's national clinical director for maternity and women’s health and in this role promoted the first friends and family test in 2014.

Scottish medical office

In March 2013, as the Scottish Government’s senior medical officer for women’s and children’s health, she helped launch Maternity Care Quality Improvement Collaborative.

Calderwood was Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer in Scotland, supporting Dr Aileen Keil who had been Acting Chief Medical Officer of Scotland from April 2014 following the retirement of Sir Harry Burns from the post in April 2014. In February 2015, Calderwood was announced as the new Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, succeeding Sir Harry Burns.