Sir Roderick Norman McIver MacSween (2 February 1935 – 11 December 2015) was a Scottish pathologist, professor of pathology at University of Glasgow, 1984 to 1999. MacSween was a past President of the

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(1996–99), a member of the

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(1998-2001) and was knighted for services to medicine and to pathology in 2000. He was a chairman of Tenovus Scotland, which annually award the Sir

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prize and medal to a medical student of the University of Glasgow for outstanding performance in pathology. He also chaired investigations into diseases affecting

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. His ''Pathology of the liver'' has reached its 7th edition and is also an

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* MacSWEEN, Sir Roderick (Norman McIver), ''Who's Who 2012'', A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn, Nov 2011
accessed 22 February 2012
1935 births 2015 deaths Scottish pathologists Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Knights Bachelor {{Scotland-med-bio-stub