Principal of the University of Aberdeen, Professor C Duncan Rice, will open a new teaching and learning centre in honour of another former Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The MacGillivray Academic Centre is named after Professor Emeritus Ian MacGillivray and will be officially opened on Tuesday, November 16, at 5.30pm at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, following the Dugald Baird Centenary Meeting.
Professor MacGillivray made major clinical and scientific contributions to our understanding of pregnancy hypertension and also twin pregnancy, as well as developing undergraduate and postgraduate education in Aberdeen.
The new facility, based within Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, consists of a lecture room, a clinical skills area, a computer room and several meetings and breakout rooms. It was developed as a joint enterprise between the Medical School and the Grampian University Hospital NHS Trust, with generous contributions from a number of other sources, including the Special Nursery trust.
It is intended that the facility will provide future doctors and midwives, as well as current staff, with the best and most up-to-date support to support their continuing education.