Thomas E. Hilditch (Bio provided for 60th Anniversary Reunion 2023)
Current position:
Retired December 2003
Career resume:
1963-1964: Barr& Stroud, Glasgow - involved in
medical applications of lasers and development of laser rangefinder.
1964 – retirement: Physicist in the
Department of Clinical Physics and Bio-Engineering (NHS), Glasgow, with a
three year secondment (1968-1970) to the secretariat of the MRC’s Radiation
Protection Committee in London. Involved mostly in the use of radionuclides
in the diagnosis and treatment of various medical conditions (so called
“Nuclear Medicine”). Given the opportunity, over the course of time, to
participate in a variety of research projects leading to the publication of
86 papers in the medical literature, a number of which were related to study
and treatment of the thyroid gland with the radioiodines. Compartmental
modelling of the uptake of radiodide by the thyroid was the subject of a
PhD awarded in 1978. Involved in the management of the West of Scotland
Radionuclide Dispensary, a radiopharmacy subdispensing bulk radionuclides
for use in hospitals throughout the region, with responsibility for
radiation protection and radionuclide quality/quantity control. Retired
whilst Head of Nuclear Medicine in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.
