Donald Macleod (surgeon)

Donald Macleod
FRCSEd, FFAEM(Hon), FFSEM(Hon), FISM
Born 1941 (age 76–77)
Nationality United Kingdom

Professor Donald Macleod FRCSEd, FFAEM(Hon), FFSEM(Hon), FISM (born 1941) is a retired British surgeon, and is a former president of the council of Scottish Rugby Union.[1]

He worked as a consultant general surgeon at West Lothian Hospitals from 1975 to 2001, and as associate postgraduate dean of surgery for south-east Scotland from 1993 to 2004.[2] He was also an honorary professor of sports medicine at Aberdeen University from 1998 to 2003.[2]

He was the Scottish rugby union team's doctor from 1969 to 1995 and their medical adviser from 1971 to 2003.[2] He was also the British Lion' team doctor from 1983; and a member of the medical advisory committee of the International Rugby Board from 1977 to 2003.[2][3]

He served as vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 2001 to 2004; chairman of the Intercollegiate Academic Board for Sports and Exercise Medicine from 1998 to 2003; president of the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine from 1995 to 2002; and from 2005 to 2008 was chair of the medical committee for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games bid.[2]

He received the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine's Sir Roger Bannister Medal in 2005.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Donald MacLeod". Scottish Rugby Union. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2009), The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-121-9 , Wikidata Q29581766
  3. ↑ Macleod, D A (1 December 1989). "Team doctor". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 23 (4): 211–212. doi:10.1136/bjsm.23.4.211.
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