Heather May Dick (November 1932 - 2007; Mitchell) was a Scottish microbiologist.
Early life and education Heather May Mitchell was born in November 1932 and was "a native of Dundee". She was educated at the Harris Academy, and studied medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine, gaining her MB, ChB in 1957. She then gained an MD from the University of Dundee in 1981, her FRCP in 1981, and FRCPath in 1983. She changed her surname to Dick on her marriage in 1958.
Career After graduating, Dick worked at Dundee Royal Infirmary and the Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, before taking up a post as an assistant in the Department of Bacteriology of the then Queen's College, Dundee (later the University of Dundee) from 1959 to 1961. She took a career break when her daughter was born, and then worked in virology at the Belvidere Hospital, Glasgow for 6 months in 1964 before being appointed as a lecturer in the department of bacteriology at the University of Glasgow. In 1971 she was appointed consultant in clinical immunology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
She became professor of medical microbiology and head of the department of microbiology at Dundee University, being appointed to the chair in 1984 and giving her inaugural lecture in October 1985. In 1994 she was chair of the Advisory committee on the microbiological safety of food.
She was a director of SoftMed Ltd from 1989 to 1991 and of the Scottish Crop Research Institute from 1992 to 1998.
Recognition She was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1985.
In 1990 she was elected a vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists for a three-year term.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours, "For services to Medicine and to Food Safety."
Personal life She married A. L. Dick in May 1958, and had a daughter. She died in 2007.
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