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He spent several years as the association's treasurer and on handing over the reins (to Tony Cave, an old medical school colleague) was made an honorary vice-president. He was a founder member of the MRRA(UK) and one of the first life members.
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Perhaps his greatest legacy to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital was the acquisition in 1995 of an MR Scanner, in the face of opposition from a then unenlightened DHA. He rapidly earned himself a reputation as an excellent opinion, particularly in his specialist areas of cross-sectional and musculo-skeletal imaging. The following year he and his family moved to Exeter where he had been appointed as a consultant. However, he developed an allergy to the agents then used for scrubbing in to theatre and was advised to seek his future in a different specialty.Ĭallum joined the Radiology training scheme in Bristol and passed his Fellowship exam in 1979. They then moved to the Birmingham Accident Hospital where he started training in Neurosurgery. On qualifying he did his house jobs in Warwick/Leamington Spa where he met his wife Jennifer, a nurse. Andrews and their clinical training at Dundee University Medical School. Andrews in 1972 having done their pre-clinical training at St. He was in one of the last groups to graduate from St. Malcolm McLean, known to all as Callum, spent his school days in Falkirk before moving to St Andrews University for his medical studies. Former Consultant Clinical Radiologist at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (born Buckie Scotland 11 January 1948: qualified St.