Cameron Lockie BSc Edin 1964, MB Edin 1966, FRCGP 1985, FRCP Edin, 1997, MBE
Cameron Lockie was a GP in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire and was the driving force behind the establishment of Travel Medicine as a recognised speciality in the UK. With his friend Eric Walker he founded a Travel Medicine course in the University of Glasgow which led to a Diploma and Masters degree in the subject, the first academic qualifications in Travel Medicine in the world. He was an honorary senior clinical lecturer in Glasgow Medical School. He co-Edited the ‘Textbook of Travel Medicine and Migrant Health’ which received a ‘Highly Commended’ BMA award. In 2003 he was elected President of the British Travel Health Association.
Following five years as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force, Cameron joined a practice in Stratford where he participated in the building of a new medical centre in the grounds of the local hospital with ‘state of the art’ facilities providing medical care for a wide area of Warwickshire. He was also a Hospital Practitioner in gynaecology at Stratford Hospital and was awarded an MBE in 1999 for services to health care.
He was active in the Royal College of General Practitioners as an examiner for the MRCGP and as a member of the College’s Examination Board. His interest in the MRCGP took him to the Middle East where he advised on an international version of the examination on behalf of the Royal College, and was awarded an honorary Professorship in Family and Community Health in the Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.
Cameron died in 2015, a great loss to health care in general and Travel Medicine in particular.