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Susan Morrow

Dr Susan Morrow is the Deputy Programme Director and personal tutor for the MSc Surgical Sciences (Year 1 & 2), and Deputy QAE Director for the school of Clinical Sciences.

Susan Morrow

Deputy Programme Director for MSc in Surgical Sciences

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Teaching Experience
  • As Deputy Director for the University of Edinburgh’s MSc Surgical Sciences, Dr Morrow plans and leads the delivery of the programme. She also is personal tutor for year 1 and 2 students, leads and teaches on an academic surgery course, participates in masters level dissertation assessments and has developed a novel masters level course which she will lead from 2022/3.
  • Member of Edinburgh Surgery Online global outreach scholarship selection panel.
  • Primary Supervisor for BMedSci honours projects.

 

Appointments and Activities 

Dr Morrow has a research focused academic background with a BSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Molecular Biology, followed by over 15 years of clinical and applied health research with Astra, Napp, Quintiles and the University of Edinburgh. She has also worked as a clinical midwife and as a lecturer during a 3 year stay in the US.

Dr Morrow joined the department of Clinical Surgery as Deputy Programme Director for the MSc in Surgical Sciences in March 2020. She is also Deputy QAE Director for the school of Clinical Sciences. This role involves engaging in the implementation, maintenance and review of QAE processes, and informing enhancements and strategic developments in learning and teaching.

 

Qualifications 

1990: BSc Hons Pharmacology (1st Class), University of Edinburgh

1994: PhD Molecular Biology ‘Identification of Regulatory Elements Within The Rat Preprotachykinin-A Promoter’, University of Edinburgh

2009: Bachelors Midwifery, Edinburgh Napier University

2021: PgCAP, University of Edinburgh

 

Memberships
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • University of Edinburgh Senatus Academicus
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, QAE Committee
  • Deanery of Clinical Sciences Executive Committee
  • Deanery of Clinical Sciences Board of Studies

 

Publications

For a list of Dr Morrow's publications, please click here

 

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