Notices by the General Board

Director of Medical Education (Clinical Dean)

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 634)

(with immediate effect)

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, has revised the General Board Regulations for the office of Director of Medical Education, to confirm that the office is to be held coterminously with the officeholder’s clinical appointment and to change the title of the office to Clinical Dean, a title used at other medical schools in the UK and abroad. The opportunity is also being taken to make some other changes to bring the appointment process into line with the process under Special Ordinance C (x).

Director of Medical Education.

By rescinding the regulations for the office of Director of Medical Education and replacing them with the following regulations:

Clinical Dean

1. Appointments and reappointments to the University office of Clinical Dean in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine shall be made by a Selection Committee constituted under Special Ordinance C (x).

2. Appointment shall be subject to the satisfactory completion of a three‑year period of probation, unless the waiver of this requirement is recommended by the Selection Committee and approved by the Head of the School.

3. On confirmation of appointment, the Clinical Dean shall hold office, subject to the provisions of Statute C or any Special Ordinance made under it, until the retiring age, so long as the person appointed satisfactorily performs the duties of the office.

4. The Council of the School of Clinical Medicine shall have power to direct, either of its own motion or on the recommendation of the Faculty Board, comparable authority, or Selection Committee concerned, that appointment to the University office of Clinical Dean shall be for a fixed term, which may be shorter than the period specified in Regulation 3 above.

Title of Honorary Professor

In accordance with the regulations for the titles of Honorary Professor and Honorary Reader (Statutes and Ordinances, 2019, p. 690), and on the recommendation of the Faculty Boards concerned, the General Board have conferred on the persons named the, following titles:

For three years with effect from 1 October 2020:

Honorary Professor of Circadian Neurobiology

Dr Michael Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience

Honorary Professor of Music

Professor Susan Rutherford, University of Manchester, in the Faculty of Music

For five years with effect from 1 October 2020:

Honorary Professor of Experimental Cardiology

Professor Andrew Grace, Department of Biochemistry and the Royal Papworth Hospital, in the Department of Biochemistry

Honorary Professor of Translational Gastroenterology

Dr Miles Parkes, Department of Medicine and the Addenbrooke’s Hospital, in the Department of Medicine