Catherine Calderwood serves as the chief medical officer for Scotland. Until her recent appointment she was the national clinical director for maternity and women's health for NHS England. She became a medical advisor to the Scottish Government in 2010 and has been instrumental in the work in reducing stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Scotland and in reducing avoidable harm in maternity services. More recently her role expanded to include major trauma services and the introduction of robotic surgery for prostate cancer to Scotland. She continues work as an obstetrician, seeing pregnant women in a regular antenatal clinic at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. Her research interests include thromboembolic disease in pregnancy and she is an investigator on the AFFIRM study which is examining whether increasing focus on the importance of movements of babies in the womb will help further reduce stillbirths across the UK and Ireland. Catherine launched her first annual report as chief medical officer in January 2016 which focuses on "Realistic Medicine" and challenges modern medicine to rethink priorities. Catherine qualified from Cambridge and Glasgow universities (MA Cantab., MBChB, MRCOG, FRCP Edin).