Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is responsible for; setting strategic direction, monitoring progress, approving new research, allocating resources and overseeing governance of the charity.

Chairman

Sam McClinton, Consultant Urological Surgeon

Managing Director

Company Secretary

Finance Director

Non Executive Director

Dr George Stevenson, Businessman

Executive Team

Reporting to the Board of Directors is a small operational team responsible for the day-to-day running of the charity.

Managing Director

Professor James N’Dow

Fundraising Manager

Kate Synott

Administrator

Gayle Stephen

UCAN Advisory Group

Led by our chief patron, provides ongoing advice to the Board on all aspects of our work, especially fundraising.

This group acts as an advisory body, meeting regularly with the Board and the Executive Team to advise on fundraising strategy and events, strategic partnerships and governance issues.

Sir Ian Wood, Chairman and Chief Executive, John Wood Group PLC

Professor Sir Graeme Catto, President of the General Medical Council

David Paton OBE, Chartered Surveyor, Grandholme House

Professor C. Duncan Rice, Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Aberdeen

Richard Berry, Chief Executive, Cytosystems Ltd

Anne Scott, Solicitor, Aberdeen

John Gaunt, General Manager, Stoneywood (ArjoWiggins)

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Research Steering Group

Guides the research undertaken by UCAN, and keeps us abreast of findings from studies carried out elsewhere.

The role of this Steering Group is crucial in ensuring that the research supported by UCAN will make a difference to the quality of life of patients and their families. It must also ensure that this research is of the highest standard.

Chairman

John Gaunt, General Manager, Stoneywood (ArjoWiggins)

Researchers

Professor Adrian Grant, Director, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen

Mike Bishop, Consultant Urologist, Nottingham

Thomas Davidson, Consultant Urologist, Sweden

Prof. James N’Dow, University of Aberdeen

John Norrie, Director, Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials, University of Aberdeen

Lay members

Chris Norton

William Carl

Robert Henderson

NHS representative

Kevin Wardlaw, Uro-oncology Specialist Nurse

University representative

Prof. Fiona Gilbert, Roland Sutton Chair of Radiology

Patrons

Sir Ian Wood

Chairman and CEO, John Wood Group

Born and educated in Aberdeen, Ian Wood graduated from Aberdeen University in 1964 with a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology.  He joined the family business, John Wood & Son, and became Managing Director in 1967.  The Company has since then evolved into two independent Scottish business groups: John Wood Group PLC is the UK's largest energy services company and J W Holdings, one of the largest fishing companies in Scotland.

Sir Ian holds many appointments within the UK. He has been awarded an Honorary Degree of LL.D from Aberdeen University and was awarded a Knighthood in the 1994 New Year's Honours List.

Sir Ian has supported UCAN from its creation in 2005 and helped the charity re-launch a new media campaign in February 2007.

President of the General Medical Council

Graeme Catto is President of the General Medical Council and Professor of Medicine, University of Aberdeen.   Until 2005, he was Vice-Principal at King's College London, Dean of the Guy's, King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals’ Medical & Dental School and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of London.    After graduating in Medicine, he obtained a Harkness Fellowship to study at Harvard University.   He is an honorary physician with an interest in renal medicine and has published widely on different aspects of nephrology and immunology.   Formerly Chief Scientist at the Scottish Executive Health Department, he is currently a member of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence.

Married to a lawyer, Graeme Catto has two children, three grandchildren and two English setters.  He enjoys the hills and glens of Scotland.

Chartered Surveyor, Grandholme House

David Romer Paton OBE is by profession a chartered surveyor and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He held a number of senior professional appointments before setting up his own single-handed practice in 1989. David Paton is also the owner of Grandhome estate where he was born, and which has been in the Paton family since the 1673. He was educated at Gordonstoun School and Keble College, Oxford. He has been held position in a number of other health initiatives including a post as Chairman of the Grampian Cancer Care Project and Chairman of the Grampian Epilepsy Association of Scotland. He is currently president of the Aberdeen Committee for MacMillan Cancer Relief.

Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Aberdeen

Professor C Duncan Rice has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen since September 1996.  He was previously Dean of the Faculty (1985-91), and Vice-Chancellor (1991-96) at New York University, playing a key role in one of the most successful US higher education fund-raising campaigns.

Professor Rice was born in Aberdeen, and took a first in history at the University of Aberdeen in 1964.  He taught briefly at Aberdeen and completed an Edinburgh doctorate before spending much of his professional life at Yale and New York University.

Professor Rice has published widely as a professional historian.  He is the recipient of many academic awards and honours, including Honorary Degrees from New York University and Robert Gordon University, an Honorary Fellowship from the UHI Millennium Institute, and fellowships at Harvard and Yale, as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Professor Rice is married to Susan Rice, the Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland.  They have three children and live in Old Aberdeen.  His interests include hillwalking, contemporary Scottish literature, and opera.

Retired Urologist

John Steyn is a graduate of Cape Town University. He was Consultant in Administrative Charge in The Department of Urology at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from 1969 until 1993. He was a Founder Member and Past Chairman of the Scottish Urological Society and a Founder Member of the European Urological Society. He is also a Member of the International Society of Urology and an Honorary Member of the South African Urological Society. He was formerly Chairman and Treasurer of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Urology, Treasurer of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and Treasurer of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He lives in Aberdeen, enjoying retirement with his wife. A number of his family are doctors and he maintains an interest in Urology.

General Manager, ArjoWiggins (Stoneywood)

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Solicitor, Aberdeen

Mrs Anne Scott is a solicitor by profession, involved initially in maritime law. She later specialised in taxation legislation, becoming a partner in Ernst and Young. She is currently a Consultant with Mackinnons, Solicitors. Anne sits on various Tribunals across Scotland and is Board Member of Aberdeen harbour Board. She has been a non-executive director of a number of local companies, a past Governor and Vice Chairman of Governors of The Robert Gordon University, and for nine years was a member of the Board of Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust (and its successor body.) Anne is also a Trustee of the Roland Sutton Academic Radiology Trust.

Aberdeen City Council

John Reynolds was unanimously appointed Lord Provost between 2003-2007and has served as a Liberal Democrat councillor in Aberdeen for 20 years. He represents the Oldmachar Ward in Bridge of Don. Born in Blackpool, Lancashire he came to work in Aberdeen in 1969 when he met his wife Helen. His career has been in the entertainment industry, retail management, tourism and newspaper distribution.During his period as Lord Provost he was passionate about promoting the city and enhancing its prosperity, playing a key role in supporting companies opening up new trade links throughout the world. He has been awarded an honorary professorship by the Marat Ospanov West Kazakhstan State Medical Academy in recognition of further Kazhak relations. His interests include his Christian faith and he has been awarded the OstJ. He and his wife also raise funds for a number of charities.

Cytosystems Ltd

Richard is a Life Science graduate of the University of Aberdeen.

Having worked with Professor John Mallard's company which was set up to commercialise the University of Aberdeen's innovative work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Richard subsequently went on to work for Scottish Enterprise Grampian where he was involved in many aspects of economic development including assisting local technology based companies to start, raise capital, and grow their businesses through innovation and internationalisation.

Richard returned to the private sector early in 2007 as Chief Executive of Cytosystems Ltd - an Aberdeen based company set up specifically to develop advanced diagnostic tests for cancer.  In collaboration with Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the company's first diagnostic product under development is a non-invasive, urine based, test for bladder cancer.

Volunteers

We are also lucky enough to have regular volunteers who come into the office each week and give up some of their time for UCAN. They are:

Lena Bushby

Flora Cooney

John Goodfellow

Agnes Gray

Ruth Cuister