PROFESSOR MARION MCMURDO

PROFILE: PROFESSOR MARION E T MCMURDO – DIRECTOR


Based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in the University of Dundee, Professor Marion E T McMurdo is one of the UK's leading authorities on the medicine of old age. Her main research interests are exercise and physical activity, nutrition, fall prevention and heart disease in later life. She is also heavily involved in the teaching of medical students.

She is the Head of the University’s Section of Ageing and Health which has an international reputation for its pioneering work in promoting good health in later life.

Professor McMurdo studied medicine at the University of Dundee, qualifying as a doctor in 1980 and was awarded an MD higher degree in 1988. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.

Professor McMurdo is in demand as a lecturer and has given keynote addresses at conferences throughout the world. She is an author of over 100 scientific papers.

As well as her academic role, she is an honorary consultant physician in Medicine for the Elderly with NHS Tayside. She holds a number of positions on influential national committees including being the President of British Geriatrics Society (Scotland), scientific advisor to the National Osteoporosis Society and to the Chief Scientist Office Department of Health. She is external tutor to the World Health Organisation’s International Institute on Ageing.

She received the Lady Illingworth Prize in 2001 an award made to the UK clinician considered to have made the greatest contribution to improving the quality of life of older people through research. In 2005 she was identified by the British Medical Association as one of 14 UK academic role models as part of a national campaign to promote careers in academic medicine.