Arnold Maran

Arnold George Dominic Maran (16 June 1937 – 10 December 2017) was a Scottish surgeon and writer, of Italian descent. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, and has been described as "one of the world's leading medical experts on the voice".[1]

He was Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Edinburgh from 1988 to 2000.[2] In 1997 he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and in 2004 was awarded an honorary degree of D.Sc. by the University of Hong Kong.[3]

The textbook Head and Neck Surgery which he co-authored with Philip Stell in 1972 (Heinemann, ISBN 0433315709) was republished in 2012 as Stell & Maran's Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Fifth Edition by John Watkinson and Ralph W Gilbert (CRC Press; ISBN 978-0-340-92916-2).

He also wrote books on the physiology of the human voice (The Voice Doctor: The Story of Singing, 2006, Book Guild: ISBN 978-1857769159); the Sicilian Mafia (Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, 2008, Mainstream: ISBN 978-1845964573), drawing on an incident involving his great uncles;[4] and an unusual golf game (Golf at the North Pole: The Arctic and the Ancient Game, 2013, Upfront: ISBN 9781780357041).

Death

Arnold Maran died on 10 December 2017, aged 80.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Forthcoming events: The Voice Doctor". Newsletter vol 9 no 4. Wagner Society of Scotland. 2005. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Maran, Prof. Arnold George Dominic". Who's Who 2018. Oxford UP. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Honorary Degrees: Arnold George Dominic Maran". University of Hong Kong. 2004. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Surgeon cuts to heart of the mob". The Scotsman. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Obituary – Professor Arnold Maran". Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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