Michael Peckham

Sir Michael Peckham FMedSci is a British oncologist and artist. As a cancer physician he is best known for his contribution to the treatment of testicular cancer. His paintings were first exhibited in 1962 and he has since shown in numerous mixed and solo exhibitions.

He was born in Panteg, Monmouthshire, read Natural Sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and qualified as a doctor from UCL Medical School. He was called up for military service and spent two years as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He is married to Catherine Peckham, daughter of Alexander King.

After working with at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Paris on the cell biology of lymphoma, he joined the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital in London. He was appointed to a Chair in 1973 and built up a team that specialised in testicular cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He founded the British Oncological Association in 1985, co-founded the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 1981 and was a founder and first Chairman of the Federation of the European Cancer Societies (FECS) which has since evolved into ECCO – the European CanCer Organisation. He was Vice-Chair of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) from 1986 to 1991.

In 1986 he became Director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, a school of the University of London comprising seven postgraduate medical institutes. In 1991 he became the first Director of Research and Development for the National Health Service (NHS) and Department of Health,. Through the new programme the Cochrane Collaboration was launched and the basis laid for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence,.

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