Donalda M Smith

Having completed her highers at Dollar Academy at the age of 16, Donalda Morgan was initially too young to enrol on a medical course and so studied botany for a year at Edinburgh University, taking up medicine there as soon as she was old enough.

Donalda’s career initially took her to Newcastle Children’s Hospital, where she worked on a team pioneering the treatment of children with tuberculosis with antibiotics. As a …