Former consultant dermatologist Aberdeen (b 1926; q St Andrews 1949; FRCP), died from Parkinson's disease on 4 April 2003.
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After house jobs and national service in the Royal Air Force, Robert worked in dermatology in Dundee. His lifelong interest in pigmentary disorders developed when he spent a year at Boston Medical School, United States. He then continued work on melanophores at the Welsh National School of Medicine. He gained further clinical experience in Canada and Dundee before his appointment as consultant in 1962. In 1975 he was appointed honorary clinical reader in dermatology, University of Aberdeen. He leaves a wife, Kay; two children; and two grandchildren.
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