Dr. Michael McKirdy

General Surgery

President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Consultant Surgeon, Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, Scotland, UK

United Kingdom

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Biography

Mike McKirdy graduated from the Glasgow University Medical School in 1985 and after surgical training in the west of Scotland, London and Manchester, was appointed a consultant surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital Paisley in 1997. Since then he has led and developed breast cancer services in the Clyde area of the West of Scotland, across three hospital sites. Mike has served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow since 2005 and while Vice President, from 2013 to 2016, established the College’s Global Health programme, mainly focused on work in Malawi, and he has now taken up post as the College Director of Global Health. In that role he co-authored a report on the value of volunteering for Global Health work and is now Professional Adviser to the Scottish Government Global Citizenship programme.

Publications

Selected publications from PubMed

Surgery, obstetrics and anaesthesia: a Cambrian explosion for global health.

Vaughan KA, McKirdy MJ, Meara JG

Scott Med J. 2019 Feb;64(1):22-24 doi: 10.1177/0036933018804125.

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Presidents’ Perspectives on DEI: Initiatives and Programs by the Surgical Colleges

Diversity, equity, and inclusion have quite appropriately become a central focus for surgical departments and organizations. This program will share the initiatives introduced by the American College of Surgeons and by five of the Royal Colleges: Canada, Edinburgh, England, Glasgow, and Ireland. These colleges collectively represent over 230,000 surgeons from North, Central, and South America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and include fellows and members from Australia and New Zealand. The Presidents and past Presidents of these 6 Colleges will share their structural organizational and programmatic endeavors to ensure that successful DEI programs are ubiquitous within their structures. They will share multiple valuable solutions which can be adapted by surgeons on a local level throughout the world.

With Johnson & Johnson MedTech

Published

Aug 2022

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