Robbie Burns Day

Dr Alexander Paterson (Sandy to his friends and colleagues) has been a member of the Calgary Burns club for 28 years which included becoming President of the club in 1996. Married to Wendy with four children and nin grandchildren with sailing and writing as his main hobbies. He is a prominent and well respected member of the club with his tremedous sense of humor and debating skills. Sandy is also a member of the Carnie group, the CBC singers and plays the fiddle. Sandy also spoke at many other occasions including RBANA which the CBC hosted in 2015. 

Sandy was born in Calcutta, India where his father was a mining engineer running coal mines in Bengal. After Indian Independence, the family moved back to Scotland. He was educated at Gullane Public School and then George Watson's College, Edinburgh (incoluding a marvelous time for 3 months at Lycee Henri Quatre in Paris). Sandy was interested in all aspects of biology and the new science of cellular biologiy, but also loved and enjoyed British and World Literature, including poetry. 

Sandy trained at Edinburge University Medical School in the sixties (earning good money playing folk music in the great bars and clubs of Edinburge) and after being thrown into the real work of surgery and medicine in Roodlands Hospital, Haddington and Milesmark Hospital Dunfermline. Sandy then drove down to Londa to study the emerging specialty of Oncology at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital where he completed a doctorate in tumour-seeking radionuclides. 

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