Roderick MacSween

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

Educational offices
Preceded by Alastair Bellingham	President of the Royal College of Pathologists 1996 – 1999	Succeeded by Sir John Lilleyman