Dec. 22, 2009
Glen Heggie, chair of MU's Department of Cardiopulmonary and Diagnostic Sciences, drives a 2008 Smart "Passion" built in Smartville, France. His regular passengers are Phoebe, a 3-year-old cream standard poodle, and Angus, a 2-year-old brown standard show poodle. Both work as therapy dogs. Photo by Shane Epping, Mizzou Wire.
Story by Nancy Moen, Mizzou Wire
Scottish-Canadian professor Glen Heggie directs the Nuclear Medicine Program and chairs the Department of Cardiopulmonary and Diagnostic Sciences.
He begins each day as most of us do, with a typical Web search for news and views, but Heggie’s preferred media outlets are international: French, Canadian, British, Italian, Australian and German. As a kid, Heggie “popped back and forth” from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Scotland with his family or alone. Now if people ask him where home is, his likely response is “between my ears.”
Such international travel, plus boarding school, added a cultural awareness to Heggie’s knowledge base and a keen interest in language that led to a working familiarity with French, Latin and Gaelic. After having lived in Canada for most of his career, Heggie moved his family to Columbia in 2002.
