A memorial fund has been established in Ken’s name to allow for the establishment of a number of undergraduate and postgraduate prizes to be awarded on an annual basis in Ken’s memory, along with the establishment of an annual MacLeod lecture. We do hope you might consider contributing to that Fund. 

We would be delighted if you would consider establishing a form of regular giving to support the Macleod Memorial Fund’s activities. Administrative arrangements for the Fund are being managed through the Peninsula Medical School Foundation, the charitable arm of the Peninsula Medical School.

Having qualified in Aberdeen, Ken joined the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust as a senior registrar in 1995. He was appointed as a consultant physician in general medicine and endocrinology in 1997 with clinical interests in general internal medicine, diabetes and endocrinology. His sub-specialty interests included diabetes in pregnancy, diabetic kidney disease and patients with thyroid and pituitary disease.

In his role as Director of Clinical Studies at the Peninsula Medical School, Ken was one of the key architects of the School’s patient-centred undergraduate curriculum that has received national and international acclaim. As chair of the Clinical Learning Group and the Health and Conduct Committee, and a founder member of the Professionalism Group, he was concerned that Peninsula Medical School students attained the highest possible professional standards. He was strongly committed to ensuring that new doctors had a solid grounding in science and clinical reasoning and coupled this with immense humanity and compassion.

Ken was married in 1986 to Steph and had 3 children Daniel, Ethan and Hope.