On Sunday, August 2 last year, plastic surgeons across the globe mourned the loss of one of their most renowned and esteemed colleagues after the death of Glasgow-born plastic surgeon Professor Ian T Jackson at the age of 85.
Jackson graduated from the University of Glasgow School of Medicine in 1959 and went on to spend a decade working as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in the city - based at Canniesburn Hospital.
He gained world-wide fame in the mid 1980s due to his extensive surgery work with a young Peruvian boy, who was abandoned by his family in the Amazon jungle due to a disfigurement that left him without a nose or upper jaw, along with a massive hole in the centre of his face.
Christened 'The Boy David' by the UK media, the toddler brought to Glasgow by Dr Jackson to perform life-changing surgery (via over 90 operations) to restore his facial features, with Dr Jackson and wife Marjorie also deciding to legally adopt David, who then grew up with them here.
A very moving series of BBC documentaries about the boy gripped Glasgow (and the nation), and had a huge impact on people in the city who tuned in - the same people who helped raise the money necessary to bring the 3-year-old with his wee Peruvian hat to Glasgow for surgery.
Producers of the show were 'overwhelmed' at the warmth given to David from TV viewers across the country, as the documentary charted his incredible journey from the Amazon rainforest to Glasgow and shone a light on his remarkable courage in repeatedly going under the knife for his surgeries.
And while wee David Lopez Jackson was the protagonist, the documentaries also did much to highlight both the astonishing surgical skills of Dr Jackson in remaking his face, but also the love and dedication he and his wife showed their adopted little boy as they brought him up as their own.
This was evidenced during the documentary when Dr Jackson's wife Marjorie returned to the Peruvian jungle in an attempt to track down David's real parents to ask for permission to adopt their son. On arrival, she said, "What if they want him back? I don't want to give him back".
Viewers looked on with pride seeing David grow up to become a typically boisterous wee Glasgow boy, who loved his football (he became a Celtic fan thanks to his dad), before the family emigrated to America after Dr Jackson took up positions firstly in Rochester, Minnesota, and then in Michigan.
While living in America in 1992, the Wall Street Journal interviewed David, who was then a senior in High School and had ambitions to follow his dad by going to university to study medicine.
"If I had a hero, it would be my dad", he told the paper.
Back in 2003, media reports suggested that David was living in Los Angeles and working as a graphic designer and a club DJ.
Dr Jackson is survived by his wife, Marjorie, and his children.
A true pioneer of plastic surgery, his legacy lives on thanks to the documentaries, which gripped Glasgow and the UK like nothing had ever done before and filled us all with a sense of pride.
