New Fellows for Faculty of Medicine
28 October 2004
On 28th October, Imperial College awarded two new Fellowships of the Faculty of Medicine and formally presented the Faculty's annual Teaching Excellence and Long Service Awards.
The two new Fellows of the Faculty of Medicine are Professor Adetokunbo O Lucas and Professor Hugh de Wardener (above, left and right, respectively).
Professor Adetokunbo O Lucas
Professor Lucas is published widely and has an international reputation in the field of tropical parasitic and infectious diseases, including schistosomiasis, malaria and African histoplasmosis.
He has held a series of very high-profile positions, including serving as Director of the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Chairman of the Carnegie Corporation's grant programme concerned with strengthening human resources in developing countries, Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of the Special Programme of Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization in Geneva.
Professor Hugh de Wardener
Hugh de Wardener is regarded as the single most influential nephrologist produced by the UK in the 20th Century. He qualified at St Thomas' Hospital in 1939 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served with distinction, was interned by the Japanese, and was awarded a military MBE.
After the war, he returned to St Thomas' as a lecturer and started work on renal physiology, salt and water balance, and acute renal failure. During this time, he wrote his internationally famous book, 'The Kidney', which described renal physiology and disease with exceptional clarity.
In 1962, he was appointed Professor of Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, and remained in this post until his retirement in 1981. He continued to work on the role of salt and water in relation to blood pressure and, in particular, investigated natriuretic hormones and performed early work on the use of renal biopsy in the diagnosis of glomerulonephritis. He was also responsible for the introduction of maintenance dialysis at Charing Cross and in expanding this service across the UK.
Teaching Excellence Award winners
The Faculty of Medicine's Teaching Excellence Awards are open to all NHS-salaried staff who teach medical undergraduates from Imperial College.
The ten winners for 2004, most of whom are pictured above at the ceremony, along with Professor Stephen Smith, Principal of the Faculty of Medicine (centre, left) are:
- Dr Dai Thomas
- Dr Jay Arnold
- Dr Rod Hughes
- Dr Lucy Abrahams
- Dr Chris Bench
- Ms Sheena Foxwell
- Dr Nikki Fowler
- Miss Harriet Owen
- Dr Roger Marwood
- Dr Tim Orchard
The Faculty also, for the first time, formally recognised the important contribution of staff who have served more than 25 years, with the introduction of Long Service Awards.
Rector of Imperial College, Sir Richard Sykes, commented on the ceremony: "This event gives the Faculty a welcome opportunity to honour two important groups of people. There are those people who have made outstanding contributions or offered unparalleled support in the field of medicine, and our own staff and NHS colleagues who are engaged in the important work of delivering the excellence in research and teaching for which the Faculty is renowned."
The ceremony was followed by a drinks reception in the Marquee on Queen's Lawn at South Kensington Campus.
