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Line 32: Rodger returned to Glasgow in 1934 as Deputy Superintendent of the [[Gartnavel Royal Hospital\|Royal Mental Hospital]] and Assistant Lecturer in [[Psychiatry]] at the [[University of Glasgow\|University]].<ref name="story"/> He remained there until 1940, when he joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] as a Specialist in Psychiatry.<ref name="BMJ">{{cite journal\|title=Obituary of T Ferguson Rodger\|journal=British Medical Journal\|pmc=1605481\|publisher=[[BMJ]]\|date=24 June 1978\|volume=1\|issue=6128\|pages=1703–1704}}</ref> By 1944, he was Consultant in Psychiatry with the rank of [[Brigadier]],<ref name="story"/> and was stationed in India and the [[South-East Asian theatre of World War II\|South East Asia Command area]]<ref name="RCPsych"/> ([[Burma]], [[British Ceylon\|Ceylon]], [[British India\|India]], [[Thailand]], [[French Indochina\|Indochina]], [[British Malaya\|Malaya]] and Singapore). He increased the profile of psychiatry within military medicine and established psychiatry as an important tool in selection of officers.<ref name="story"/><ref name="RCPsych"/> After the War, in 1945, he returned to Scotland as Senior Commissioner of the General Board of Control for Scotland<ref name="story"/><ref name="BMJ"/> (replaced in 1960 by the [[Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland]]), but retained his connection to the Army throughout his life. In 1948, he was appointed to the new Chair of Psychological Medicine at the [[University of Glasgow]]. He developed his unit at Glasgow's [[Southern General Hospital]] into a strong component of the ~~University~~university's [[University of Glasgow Medical School\|Medical School]], and was instrumental in developing it into a leader in the development of psychiatry within hospitals<ref name="RCPsych"/><ref name="BMJ"/> and the combination of psychological medicine with neurological sciences. In 1972, the unit was formed into the Institute of Neurological Sciences, where the [[Glasgow Coma Scale]] was devised by [[Graham Teasdale (physician)\|Graham Teasdale]] and [[Bryan J. Jennett]] in 1974. He was an external examiner at [[University of Edinburgh\|Edinburgh]] and [[University of Leeds\|Leeds]] Universities. Rodger served on a number of government committees as well as the Committee on Mental Health of the [[World Health Organization\|World Health Organisation]]. He was Chairman of the Scottish Line 51: ==Retirement== Rodger fell ill in 1972 and retired from the ~~Chair~~chair at Glasgow the following year. He was succeeded by [[Michael Bond (physician)\|Sir Michael Bond]], previously a lecturer in [[neurosurgery]] at the university, who was knighted in 1995 for services to medicine.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Biography of Sir Michael Bond\|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1008&type=P\|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]\|date=10 May 2010\|accessdate=19 December 2010}}</ref> Bond retired in 1998, and the ~~Chair~~chair is currently vacant.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Chair of Psychological Medicine\|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/chair-and-lectureship/?id=810\|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]\|date=22 April 2008\|accessdate=19 December 2010}}</ref> ==Personal life== Line 57: ==References== {{~~reflist~~Reflist}} {{University of Glasgow}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodger, Ferguson}}

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