Education
Parry has an honorary Doctor of Science (Kumasi) and a number of honorary Fellowships, and is a founding member of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Amoud University, Somaliland. He studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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Eldryd Parry
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Sir Eldryd Hugh Owen Parry Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a Welsh academic, physician and founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust, which helps African medical schools and hospitals to improve staff skill levels.
Career
He now holds an honorary Fellowship, and at Cardiff University. He worked at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London before secondment to University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1960. After three years at Haile Selassie University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, he returned to Nigeria in 1969 as the Chair of Medicine at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. in 1977 he took the post of Foundation Dean of Medicine, at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
lieutenant was in Ilorin that he introduced a radical community based programme, COBES with Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe.
He was Dean and Professor of Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, from 1980-1985. He founded the Tropical Health and Education Trust in London, in 1988.
He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Achievements
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He is the founder of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) (wwwthetorg) and senior editor of Principles of Medicine in Africa (revised edition, 2004). In 2007, Parry received a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Society of Medicine for achievement in tropical medicine, and was made an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1982 and Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Street George (Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to healthcare development in Africa. The third edition of Principles of Medicine in Africa won: Society of Authors and Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards Winner 2005 - Winner 2005 British Medical Association First Prize in its category 2005 - Winner.
Awards
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Medicine Book Awards Winner; Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.