Margaret Fairlie
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| Born | 1891 Angus, Scotland |
| Died | 1963 (aged 71–72) Dundee, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | Gynaecologist, professor |
| Known for | First female University professor in Scotland |
Margaret Fairlie (1891–1963) was a Scottish academic and gynaecologist. Fairlie spent most of her career working at Dundee Royal Infirmary and teaching at the medical school at University College, Dundee (later Queen's College, Dundee). In 1940 she became the first woman to hold a professorial chair in Scotland.
Margaret Fairlie was born in 1891 to Mr and Mrs James Fairlie and grew up at West Balmirmer Farm, Angus. From 1910 to 1915 she studied at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine and the University College, Dundee. After graduating MBChB from the University of St Andrews, she held various medical posts in Dundee, Perth, and Edinburgh, and at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, where she trained in her specialism. She returned to Dundee in 1919 where she ran a consultant practice for gynaecology.
In 1920 she began a teaching career at Dundee's Medical School, which lasted for almost four decades. In the mid-1920s she joined the staff of Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she worked for the rest of her career. In 1926 she visited the Marie Curie Foundation in Paris and this visit caused her to develop a keen interest in the clinical applications of radium. As a result of this began employing it in the treatment of malignant gynaecological diseases and thus pioneered its clinical use in Scotland. She also organised follow up clinics at Dundee Royal Infirmary for patients she had treated with radium. During the 1930s she purchased radium for the infirmary using her own savings. Away from the Infirmary, she acted as honorary gynaecologist to the infirmaries at Arbroath, Brechin, Montrose and Forfar and was involved with cases throughout Angus and Perthshire.
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