Rona McLeod, Lady Black (''née'' Davidson; born 22 May 1940), known professionally as Rona MacKie, is a British

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Early life and family

Rona McLeod Davidson was born in

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in 1940, the daughter of Dr Morag (''née'' McLeod) and Professor

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."MacKie, Prof. Rona McLeod, (Lady Black)"
''Who's Who 2017'' (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, November 2016). Retrieved 18 November 2017. Her father was

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at the

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from 1947 to 1972."Rona MacKie"
''University of Glasgow''. Retrieved 18 November 2017. Davidson attended

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, before studying medicine at the

. She graduated with an

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in 1963, and received an MD with commendation in 1970.

Career

Mackie held junior posts in

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hospitals between completing her medical qualifications and obtaining her doctorate in 1970. She became a member of the

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(MRCP) in 1971. Between 1971 and 1972, she was a lecturer in Dermatology at the University of Glasgow, and then spent six years as a consultant dermatologist with

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. In 1978, she returned to the University of Glasgow as Professor of Dermatology, the first female professor at the University of Glasgow. She remained in this post until 2001, when she was appointed as a senior research fellow in the Faculty of Medicine. Mackie's principal interest is skin cancer, particularly

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. In 1983, she was elected a Fellow of the

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, in 1984, she became a Fellow of the

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and in 1985, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1994, she received a DSc from the University of Glasgow. In 1998, she was among the founding fellows of the

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, and in 1999 the

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awarded her the Sir Archibald Grey Medal. In the

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, Mackie was appointed a Commander of the

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."The Queen's Birthday Honours: Civil List – CBE, GBE, DBE and KBE"
''BBC News'', 12 June 1999. Retrieved 18 November 2017. She received the Bicentenary Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2007 and the Medal for Dermatological Research from the British Society for Investigative Dermatology two years later.

References

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