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Medical Educator Dr. Roderick MacLeod Honored by Marquis Who

Dr. MacLeod is an author of the 8th edition of The Palliative Care Handbook



In 2013, he was credited as having contributed to a comprehensive research report published by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

    GREENWICH, AUSTRALIA, November 10, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Roderick MacLeod has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Dr. Roderick MacLeod is a medical educator and researcher with more than 30 years of experience in academia and palliative care. The former medical director of Dorothy House Hospice near Bath, England, Dr. MacLeod is an expert in palliative care and chronic illness with a host of editing and publishing credits to his name. Now serving as a senior staff specialist in palliative care and conjoint professor of the University of Sydney, he was appointed to his current role in 2012 by HammondCare as part of the organization's commitment to providing outstanding end-of-life care. Since then, he has focused on the themes of cancer, healthy aging and palliative care as a means of supporting patients and their families through their final transition.

In addition to his role with Dorothy House, Dr. MacLeod has served as a professor for the University of Otago, director of palliative care for the Mary Potter Hospice Foundation, and a general practice physician with the Holt Group Practice. As an author and co-author, he has penned book chapters in several educational resources, including the Textbook of Palliative Medicine and "First Do No Self-Harm: Understanding and Promoting Physician Stress Resilience," which was published in 2013. With an impressive list of more than 50 journal articles and scholarly reviews written in the past 10 years alone, Dr. MacLeod is a well-respected and leading authority in the medical community. In 2013, he was credited as having contributed to a comprehensive research report published by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Dr. MacLeod is a fellow of the Chapter of Palliative Care of the Royal Australasian College Physicians, whose education committee he was formerly a member of from 2004 to 2008. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a past member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health's Palliative Care Advisory Group. In addition to being appointed as a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, he was honored with the Inaugural Lloyd Morgan Charitable Trust fellowship and inclusion in Who's Who in Medicine in Healthcare, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World.

Dr. MacLeod's educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Glamorgan, a master's degree in medical education and a bachelor of medicine from the University of Dundee.

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