James D. Hutchison MCh

Jimmy Hutchison came to Aberdeen in 1980. He held the Regius Chair of Surgery and the Sir Harry Platt Chair of Orthopaedics at the University of Aberdeen until retiring in 2016, although he still worked part-time until 2018 as an orthopedic surgeon with NHS Grampian and for the Scottish Government, chairing the Scottish Orthopaedic Services Development Group. He was Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 2012-15 and has held various posts in surgery and orthopedics, having previously chaired the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit, the Scottish Audit of Surgical Mortality, and the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma, and been Specialty Adviser to the Chief Medical Officer. He has been President of the Harveian Society, the Moynihan Chirurgical Club, the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, and the Attending Surgeon for the Scotland Rugby Team. Jimmy joined the Board of Governors in 2011 and took over the role of Chairman in 2013. He is married to Kate, with three grown-up children, and has stayed at Echt since 1981. He joined the Royal Northern University Club in 1994 and has served as their Chairman.