Sir Roderick Norman McIver MacSween FRCPE FRCPGlas FRCPath FSB FMedSci FRSE (2 February 1935 – 11 December 2015) was a Scottish pathologist, professor of pathology at University of Glasgow, 1984 to 1999.

MacSween was a past President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1996–99), a member of the General Medical Council (1998-2001)[1] and was knighted for services to medicine and to pathology in 2000.[2]

He was a chairman of Tenovus Scotland, which annually award the Sir Roddy MacSween prize and medal to a medical student of the University of Glasgow for outstanding performance in pathology.[3]

He also chaired investigations into diseases affecting farmed fish.[4] His Pathology of the liver has reached its 7th edition and is also an ebook.

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Sir Roderick MacSween – President 2009-". Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "Knights Bachelor etc". BBC News. 2000. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "Scholarships and Awards". Tenovus Scotland. 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "After foot-and-mouth, now it's salmon". The Scotsman. 8 November 2001. Retrieved 22 February 2012.

Sources

  • MacSWEEN, Sir Roderick (Norman McIver), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 22 February 2012


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