Last week we hosted a retirement tea for our co-director, Professor Maggie Cruickshank, in the MacGillivray Centre where we were joined by many colleagues of Maggie’s spanning the last 20 years. Maggie is a highly respected and well-loved colleague of all here at the Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health and she will be greatly missed but we all wish her a happy and enjoyable retirement life.
The Principal of the University shared the below message for Maggie:
I’m very pleased to say a few words about Professor Maggie Cruickshank, who is retiring after a stellar academic career at our University. Maggie graduated from Aberdeen Medical School in 1985 and spent most of her training and all her consultant and senior academic career at the University.
She was the second ever gynaecologist to be appointed as a consultant in Aberdeen and is also a Chair in Gynaecology, and has been a well-liked and highly respected consultant gynaecologist for more than 20 years.
Among her many roles, Professor Cruickshank is the co-director of the Aberdeen Centre of Women’s Health Research, and the Director of Research & Development for NHS Grampian. She is also the President-elect of the European Federation of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology.
Her academic research portfolio in women’s health research is very impressive, with more than 180 publications in high quality journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet.
In addition to her research achievements, Maggie has a passion for teaching, and has helped to develop the careers of many of our undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has overseen teaching in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department for decades and supervised numerous M.Sc. and PhD students from across the world.
Professor Cruickshank is seen by many as the role model for a hardworking and high-achieving female gynaecologist and has always been a strong advocate for female health professionals.
In closing, I’d like to say thank you, Maggie, for everything you have done for the University throughout your career. I wish you a long and happy retirement, you will be greatly missed by your immediate colleagues and the wider University community.