k) Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, KCMG, OBE (Founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET; alumnus of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)

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2014-11-13 13:52

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Cambridge-Africa Day 2014

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Tropical Health; Africa; Medicine; Nigeria; Ghana;

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Person:	Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, KCMG, OBE
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Abstract:	Professor Sir Eldryd Parry is the founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust. He was given a lifetime achievement award by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2007. He also received the OBE in 1982 and was appointed KCMG in 2011. Sir Parry was senior editor of Principles of Medicine in Africa until 2009. He is an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff, Emmanuel College Cambridge, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ghana, and a Foundation Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Amoud University, Somaliland. His history of work in Africa includes the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria (1960-63), Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa (1966-69) and being the Chair of Medicine at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. In 1977 Sir Parry became the Foundation Dean of Medicine at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where he introduced a radical community based programme, COBES. From 1980 to 1985 he was Dean and Professor of Medicine at the now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

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Professor Sir Eldryd Parry is the founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust. He was given a lifetime achievement award by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2007. He also received the OBE in 1982 and was appointed KCMG in 2011. Sir Parry was senior editor of Principles of Medicine in Africa until 2009. He is an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff, Emmanuel College Cambridge, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ghana, and a Foundation Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Amoud University, Somaliland. His history of work in Africa includes the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria (1960-63), Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa (1966-69) and being the Chair of Medicine at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. In 1977 Sir Parry became the Foundation Dean of Medicine at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where he introduced a radical community based programme, COBES. From 1980 to 1985 he was Dean and Professor of Medicine at the now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

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k) Professor Sir Eldryd Parry, KCMG, OBE (Founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust - THET; alumnus of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)