He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2006-2009.]]>
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Cameron started his medical career studying at Edinburgh and then graduating from the University of Glasgow MB, CM in 1866. He gained his MD from the university in 1868.

He was taught by Joseph Lister as a medical student, going on to become his house surgeon and assistant at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was appointed Visiting Surgeon to the Infirmary in 1873.

Cameron then moved to the Glasgow Western Infirmary where he first acted as Visiting Surgeon in 1881, before taking over the position of Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Infirmary in 1900. He held several other positions during his career, which included working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, the Glasgow Royal Asylum, the Glasgow Eye Infirmary and the Glasgow Lock Hospital.

Cameron served as President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1897 to 1900.

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MacKay graduated from the University of Glasgow MBChB in 1961. Mackay worked as a consultant surgeon at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital.

He retired from clinical practice in 1996, going on to serve as president of the College from 1997-2000. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for his services to medicine. ]]>
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He studied medicine in Edinburgh, graduating in 1798, and was admitted to the College in 1801. He took up his position at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1804, then going on to taking up the role of Visiting Physicians to the Glasgow Royal Asylum in 1821- this post was previously held by Robert Cleghorn.

Balmanno’s mother was a well-known apothecary in the Trongate in Glasgow.]]>
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David Galloway gained his MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1977, going on to gain his MD in 1985. He worked as a Consultant Surgeon in General and Colorectal Surgery at the Gartnavel General Hospital and the Glasgow Western Infirmary. Galloway was also Lecturer in Surgery and Honorary Senior Registrar at the Glasgow Western Infirmary., and Honorary Senior Registrar at St Mark's Hospital in London.

Galloway became a Fellow of the College in 1981 and was president from 2015 to 2018. ]]>
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He was physician to the poorhouse or Town’s Hospital in Glasgow between 1786 and 1791 and also one of the original managers of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary which opened in 1794. A number of his casebooks from this period are preserved in the College archive. He subsequently (in 1814) became first physician and then a director of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics in Dobbie’s Loan.
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Dr David Yellowlees was the Physician Superintendent of the Glasgow Royal Asylum (Gartnavel) from 1874 to 1901. He also held the post of Lecturer in Insanity at the University of Glasgow from 1880.

A controversial figure in his day, Yellowlees was an advocate for using restraint in certain patient cases at Gartnavel, despite the majority of asylums moving away from this method. ]]>

Orr graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1840. Soon after he moved to Glasgow to work at the Royal Lunatic Asylum at Gartnavel alongside Dr Hutchison. After this he became Medical Superintendent at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He then remained Visiting Physician to the Infirmary until his retirement .

Orr was president of the College from 1880 to 1883. ]]>

David Yellowlees graduated MD in 1857 from the University of Edinburgh. At the start of his career he worked at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as the assistant to William Gairdner. He also worked at the Royal Asylum of Edinburgh in Morningside. The majority of his career was spent as Physician Superintendent of the Royal Asylum of Glasgow at Gartnavel, becoming a leader in the care of mental diseases.

Yellowlees was president of the College from 1892 to 1894. ]]>