Iain Macintyre (surgeon)

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Iain Melfort Campbell Macintyre (also MacIntyre ; born June 23, 1944 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a Scottish surgeon.

Macintyre studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and also received his surgical training in Durban , South Africa. From 1974 he was lecturer in surgery at the University of Edinburgh and 1978/79 professor of surgery at the University of Natal . From 1979 to 1985 he was Consultant Surgeon and Head of General Surgeon at Leith Hospital in Edinburgh, 1985 to 2002 at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh (general surgery and surgery of the gastrointestinal tract) and from 2002 to 2004 Consultant Surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

He was Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 2003 to 2006 (of which he has been a Fellow since 1973). From 1997 to 2004 he had the official title of Surgeon to the Queen in Scotland. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh .

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  • Editor with Iain MacLaren: Surgeons' Lives, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005 (History of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
  • with Helen Dingwall, David Hamilton, Morrice McCra, David Wright: Scottish Medicine, an illustrated history, Edinburgh: Birlinn 2011
  • Published by: Practical laparoscopic surgery for general surgeons, Oxford, Butterworth Heinemann 1994

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