Sally Davies (doctor)
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Dame Sally Davies DBE FMedSci FRS |
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Sally Davies in 2014
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| Chief Medical Officer for England | |
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Assumed office 1 June 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Liam Donaldson |
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Sally Claire Davies 24 November 1949 Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | English |
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| Occupation | Chief Medical Officer for England |
| Profession | Haematologist |
| Website | gov |
Dame Sally Claire Davies, DBE, FMedSci, FRS (born 24 November 1949) is the Chief Medical Officer for England. Previously she was the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health, and worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow.
Davies was born into an academic family in Birmingham in 1949. She failed her eleven-plus exam but was nevertheless able to study at the private Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, where she excelled on the viola.
Davies studied medicine at Manchester Medical School at the University of Manchester. She qualified as a doctor, graduating with a MB ChB degree in 1972 and later gained a Master of Science degree from the University of London.
She described her early years in clinical practice as "brutalising" and had a four-year break from medicine as a "diplomat's wife" in Madrid, before returning to medical training at the end of the 1970s.
She became a consultant haematologist in 1985 at the Central Middlesex Hospital in Brent – a relatively deprived part of northwest London – and became Professor of Haemoglobinopathies there in 1997, by which time the hospital had been incorporated into Imperial College London. Central Middlesex Hospital was demolished and rebuilt using PFI money in 2006.
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