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Motion · S6M-10048 · 28 Jul 2023

University of Aberdeen Memorial Event for Professor John Mallard

Lodged by Tess White Standard Motion 27 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament recognises the memorial event, due to be held on 19 August 2023 by the University of Aberdeen to pay tribute to Professor John Mallard, who died in February 2021, aged 94; understands that Professor Mallard led the team that built the first whole-body MRI scanner, transforming medical treatment around the world; notes that Professor Mallard joined the University of Aberdeen in 1965 when he was appointed as the institution’s first Professor of Medical Physics and became the first holder of the Chair in this subject in Scotland, and over the next 15 years the team produced the first diagnostically useful, full body MRI images, produced using the Mark-1 scanner, which they assembled on a shoe-string budget, and was first tested on a cancer patient in 1980 revealing cancer sites that were previously undetected and soon captured the first images of multiple sclerosis; understands that, today, MRI machines are a routine part of medical diagnostics all over the world, in specialties from psychiatry and cardiology to orthopaedics and oncology, allowing clinicians to look inside the human body in amazing clarity and detail, and pays tribute to the pioneering work of Professor Mallard.

Supporters (27)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.