The life of Professor Norman McOmish Dott – Scottish pioneer in modern neurosurgery

Osman, A. Rahman, Chaudhary, A., Tan, J., Bone, M. and Wellington, Jack 2022. The life of Professor Norman McOmish Dott – Scottish pioneer in modern neurosurgery. Brain and Spine 2 (Supp.) , 101650. 10.1016/j.bas.2022.101650

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Abstract

Modern neurosurgical practices have been largely influenced by an established, celebrated history of Scottish innovation and influence. Scottish neurosurgery has a long and illustrious history; from the foundations laid by Sir William Macewan, a pioneer of contemporary surgery on the brain deemed the ‘father of neurosurgery’ and the development of the Glasgow Coma Scale by Dr Bryan Jennett and Dr Graham Teasdale being a select few examples, Scotland continues to enrich surgical academia globally. Such advances are evident to this day. These visionaries are detailed extensively in the current literature. We draw attention to one other such figure, Professor Norman McOmish Dott, a Scottish neurosurgeon born on August 26th, 1897, in Edinburgh, credited with establishing contemporary neurosurgical practise in Scotland and for his contributions to intracranial aneurysm, transsphenoidal, and craniopharyngioma surgery. We pay reverential tribute to the life and work of Professor Norman McOmish Dott through this literature review.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Medicine
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Start Date: 2022-10-17
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	2772-5294
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 October 2022
Last Modified:	10 Feb 2024 02:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153598

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