Hannay, David Rainsford (b.1939: senior lecturer and senior research fellow, Department of General Practice, University of Glasgow, Scotland)

David Rainsford Hannay was born on 03 January 1939 . He was educated at Cambridge University where he received a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1958 , an MB BChir in 1964 and an MD in Medical Education in 1982 . He received his PhD in Community Health from the University of Glasgow in 1975 .

The Glasgow Symptom Survey was conducted as research for the PhD thesis of David Rainsford Hannay, awarded in 1975. The thesis entitled Symptoms and referral in Glasgow was undertaken in the Department of Community Medicine under the supervision of Dr V.M. Hawthorne. In 1979 the research was again used for Dr Hannay's publication The Symptom Iceberg: A Study of Community Health (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979).

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