Glenda Marlene MacQueen (January 11, 1965 – March 27, 2020) was a Canadian medical researcher and medical college professor and administrator. She was vice-dean of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary from 2012 to 2019.

Early life

Glenda Marlene MacQueen was born in

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, and raised on

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. Her parents were Donald Gordon MacQueen and Anita Marie Walker MacQueen. She attended

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as an undergraduate. She earned a PhD in psychology and a medical degree, both from McMaster University, where she also served a residency in psychiatry.

Career

MacQueen worked at McMaster University Medical Centre until 2008, when she joined the faculty of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She was academic head of the school's psychiatry department, and vice-dean of the school from 2012 to 2019. She helped establish and lead the school's Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, and the university's Mental Health Strategy. Her research involved neurobiology, especially regarding mood disorders, and was published in journals including '' Science'', ''

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Molecular Psychiatry ''Molecular Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group. It covers research in biological psychiatry. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''Journal C ...

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''. MacQueen received the Douglas Utting award in 2011, and the

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Award in 2014, from the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She received the J. M. Cleghorn Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association in 2017. She was elected a fellow of the

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in 2018. She served on the board of directors of the Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT), and the Brain Canada Foundation, and on the editorial boards of the ''

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'' and the ''Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience''. She was on the scientific advisory board of the Royal Institute for Mental Health Research.

Personal life

Glenda MacQueen married Alex Memedovich. They had three children. She died from breast cancer in 2020, aged 55 years, in Calgary.

References

External links

Glenda MacQueen, "Lost and Found Inside Yourself"
(2014), a presentation at TEDx Calgary, on YouTube. {{DEFAULTSORT:MacQueen, Glenda 1965 births 2020 deaths Canadian medical researchers McMaster University alumni Academic staff of the University of Calgary People from Sydney, Nova Scotia Scientists from Nova Scotia Canadian women scientists Mount Allison University alumni Deaths from breast cancer Deaths from cancer in Alberta