Welcome to Body of Work, the heritage podcast from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. This podcast is all about celebrating collaborations and celebrating them through medical heritage. Each episode will feature a different professional who has worked with us here at the heritage department; we chat about their work, and what drew them to it. We also geek out a bit on medical heritage! 

This week’s guest is Jane Chiodini, a travel health specialist and former Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the College. Jane has a background in nursing and became the first nurse in England to obtain an MSc in Travel Medicine from the University of Glasgow. Jane has been a part of the College for many years and a prize for diplomates of Travel Medicine was launched in her name in 2022, the Jane Chiodini Prize, but I’ll let her talk about that…

This week’s guest is Maggie Reilly. Maggie is recently retired, having worked as the Curator of Zoology at the Hunterian for many years. The Hunterian is a complex of world-renowned museums in Glasgow housing the collections of Dr William Hunter, a pioneering obstetrician and anatomist of the 18th century. Maggie’s role covered the curation of the zoological specimens and anatomical specimens housed in the Hunterian collection. She is also an active member of the College’s heritage committee and has helped with a few of our outreach events, but I’ll let her talk about that…

This week’s guest is Mr Thisara Weerasuriya. Thisara is a specialty doctor in trauma and orthopaedics, as well as an honorary senior lecturer of the medical school at the University of Glasgow.  Thisara is a member of the advisory committee of the College for equality, diversity and inclusion, and collaborated with the heritage department on one of our Reframed events, ‘A history of the first South Asian Licentiates’, but I’ll let him talk about that…