Professor Ernesto Pollitt, Professor of Human Development, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, is selected to receive this Award for the remarkable progress in understanding the important and often permanent effects of food on the learning and behavior of children. He was the first to demonstrate the effect of even subclinical […]
Professor Kennedy Francis Shortridge, an Australian national, was born on 6th April 1941. He obtained Bachelor of Science ((Microbiology) from the University of Queensland in 1962. He started his career as a Bacteriologist at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1963. In 1971 he received Ph.D. (Virology) from University of London: University College Hospital Medical School. […]
Dr.Harvey D.White is now a director of Coronary Care and Cardiovascular Research at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, and a Honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland. He received MBCh B. And Doctorate of Science from the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1973 and 1995 respectively, He started his […]
Dr. Rene G. Favaloro was born on 14th July 1923 in La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied in the Medical Science Faculty of La Plata University and, in 1949, graduated at the top of his class with the title of Doctor in Medicine. He is now the director of […]
Professor Dr. Satoshi Omura graduated from Yamanashi University in 1958 and received M.S. and Ph.D. (Chemistry) from Science University of Tokyo. He also received Ph.D. (Pharmacy) from University of Tokyo. Dr. Satoshi Omura is the Professor and President of the Kitasato Institute. His main research is newly isolation and discovery of a great number of […]
Professor Vincent P. Dole graduated from Stanford University in 1934, where he major in mathematics, a discipline which was to remain central to much of his future research work and in 1939 he graduated from the Harvard Medical School. He was professor and senior physician to the Rockefeller University Hospital in mid-1960’s and was also […]
Professor Dr. Prasong Tuchinda graduated M.D. from University of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand in 1945. He had further training in Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine at the University of London, United Kingdom where he obtained D.T.M. & H. (Eng) in 1952 and Certificate of Senior Teacher of Child Health UNICEF & WHO Sponsored Course in 1962. […]
Dr. Suchitra Nimmannitya received an M.D. Degree in 1954 from the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand. She obtained an M.P.H. Degree (Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases) in 1969 from Yale University School of Medicine, U.S.A. She was certified Diplomate, Thai Board of Pediatrics in 1971. She obtained a certificate from UNICEF/WHO […]
Professor Frederick T. Sai, a Ghanaian physician, educated in the Universities of London, Edinburgh, and Harvard in an internationally recognised authority on health nutrition population and family planning, particularly in Africa. He is currently an honorary professor of community health in the University of Ghana Medical School. As chairman of the National Population Council, he […]
Dr. Nafis Sadik is the Executive Director of the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) and holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. On her appointment in 1987, she became the first woman to head one of the United Nations major voluntarily-funded programmes. As chief executive of UNFPA, the world’s largest source of multilateral […]
