Aileen Margaret Keel was born on 12 August 1952 and is a Scottish medical doctor and academic who is serving as the Director of the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme at the University of Edinburgh.
11 Facts About Aileen Keel
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Aileen Keel previously served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Scotland from 1999 to 2014 and served as the Acting Chief Medical Officer, until 2015.
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Aileen Keel worked in general medicine in Glasgow and Aberdeen, when she later moved to London to serve as the Director of Pathology and Consultant Haemotologist at the Cromwell Hospital.
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Aileen Keel returned to Scotland and served as the Senior Medical Officer at the Scottish Office.
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Aileen Keel was seconded by the Scottish Government to the University, where she is the Director of the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme.
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Aileen Keel was born in Glasgow on 12 August 1952 to Everina and Walter Aileen Keel.
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Aileen Keel studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating with a MB ChB in 1976.
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Aileen Keel was an honorary consultant in haematology and research fellow at Central Middlesex and Middlesex hospitals from 1988 to 1992.
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Aileen Keel returned to Scotland in 1992 to take up with position of Senior Medical Office at the Scottish Office a post she held until her promotion in 1998 to Principal Medical Officer.
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Since 2015, Aileen Keel has been seconded from the Scottish Government to the University of Edinburgh as Director of the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme.
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Aileen Keel is Chair of the Scottish Cancer Task Force and co-chair of Clinical Outcomes and Measures for Quality Improvement.