Mary Robertson
South African neuropsychiatrist (born 1948)
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Robertson studied at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and graduated with a medical degree in 1971. After being trained in the UK, and obtaining her qualification in Psychiatry, she became a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1991. She did a three-year doctorate degree at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, and was made a Professor at the University College London (UCL) in 1998. During that period, she was awarded a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. She received her Doctor of Science in Medicine in 2006. She was the first woman to receive that degree from UCT.
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Career
Medicine
Robertson's research explored Tourette syndrome; she authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and four books. In 2000 she co-founded in Denmark with Anne Korsgaad the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS), of which she was appointed Honorary President for Life in 2008. She retired early in 2002 due to poor health and was appointed Emeritus Professor of UCL.
Geography
She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society for travelling in 1976 "on a yacht, circumnavigating under square rig while undertaking solo expeditions upriver, and living with the Ibans in the Borneo jungle".