BSc (Hons), PGCE, PhD
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- m.cotter@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Mary Cotter graduated in biological sciences from the University of Birmingham in 1970 then completed a postgraduate certificate of education before undertaking a PhD in Physiology, also at the University of Birmingham and awarded in 1975. Professor Cotter then completed a Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship before leaving Birmingham to help set up the Nursing studies degree at the University of Hull. She was appointed as a lecturer in Physiology at Aberdeen (1979), and was promoted to senior lecturer (1992) and to a Chair of Systems Physiology in 2001. She served as a member of the Council of the Physiological Society from 2001 -2. From 1995 until 2001, she acted as the Co-ordinator of Phase I MBChB and was appointed as the Executive Dean (Teaching) of the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences. She acted asDirector of Teaching and Learning for the College of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen from 2003 until 2011. In 2010, Mary was awarded the first Otto Hutter Teaching Prize from the Physiological Society of Great Britain in recognition of her outstanding and innovative teaching of physiology to medical and science students. She also won the Simpson Medal for outstanding contribution to the teaching of medical students at the University of Aberdeen in 2010.
External Memberships
Vice President of NEURODIAB, the diabetic neuropathy study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
- Research
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Research Overview
Professor Cotter has research interests in diabetic polyneuropathy, autonomic neuropathy, in particular the vascular effects of diabetes, erectile dysfunction and wound healing.