Stuart Mcdonald FRCS

Stuart W. McDonald is a Professor of Clinical and Forensic Anatomy at the University of Glasgow. Stuart McDonald, a farmer’s son from Dumfriesshire, was a medical student at the University of Glasgow and took an intercalated BSc in Anatomy. After house jobs at the Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Stuart joined the staff of Anatomy at Glasgow University, taking his PhD and commencing a career of teaching medical and dental students. From his student days, Stuart has participated in the meetings of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and served as the Association’s Honorary Secretary from 1992 – 2002, as the British Editor of its academic journal “Clinical Anatomy” from 2002 – 2012, and from 2013 - 2015, and as the Association’s President 2014 – 2018. Since 2006, Stuart has worked as a forensic anatomist with the Police and the University of Glasgow’s Forensic Pathologists. Stuart continues to carry out a wide range of teaching to medical, dental, and science students working closely with colleagues at the Hunterian Museum, and is the lead anatomist for the MRCS examinations of the Royal Surgical Colleges of the United Kingdom and Ireland.