The School of Business and Management's first guest speaker event of 2006 will be held on Monday, 20 February. Dr Harry Burns, the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, will be giving a talk entitled: 'Health, management and complex systems'.

Dr Burns graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1974. Over the next 15 years he worked as a general surgeon and for the last six years of his surgical career was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.

He entered health care management and was, for a time, Medical Director of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.

Since 1993 he was Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health Board, which is responsible for organising health care and maintaining the health of one million people in the West of Scotland. In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Professorship in Public Health Medicine, University of Glasgow and is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Management in the University.

He took up post as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland in September 2005.

The event will take place in the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre at 6pm.

The talk will be followed by a light buffet.

For further details on the upcoming guest speaker event, or to confirm your attendance, please contact Emily Stewart on 0141 330 6924 or email e.stewart@mgt.gla.ac.uk

Visit the Alumni News page for information on September's guest speaker event.

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First published: 7 February 2006