Malcolm Gracie "Calum" Semple is a British physician and academic. He is Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine at the University of Liverpool and a

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respiratory paediatrician at

Alder Hey Children's Hospital Alder Hey Children's Hospital is a children's hospital and NHS foundation trust in West Derby, Liverpool, England. It is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United Kingdom, and one of several specialist hospitals within the Live ...

Liverpool. Semple was an undergraduate medical student the Middlesex Hospital Medical School when he met Richard Tedder at the hospital Burns supper, both playing their bagpipes. This led to Semple interrupting his medical studies to read an intercalated bachelor's tripos in cell pathology, immunology and virology supervised by Lewis Wolpert, Ivan Roitt, and Richard Tedder. He continued to study clinical virology as a doctoral student supervised by Richard Tedder and Dr Clive Loveday at University College London. Semple completed his medical degree at

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. Semple led a clinical trial of

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convalescent plasma in Sierra Leone and a follow-up study of Ebola survivors with Dr Janet T Scott and Paul J Steptoe.

Honours

Semple was awarded the

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in 2016. He was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to the Covid-19 response.

References

Fellows of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Living people Academics of the University of Liverpool British paediatricians West African Ebola virus epidemic Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Higher Education Academy Year of birth missing (living people) Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub