Background
Morrison, Errol York St Aubyn was born on September 21, 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica. Son of Clinton Arnold and Lucille Maud (Watson) Morrison.
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Morrison, Errol York St Aubyn was born on September 21, 1945 in Kingston, Jamaica. Son of Clinton Arnold and Lucille Maud (Watson) Morrison.
Doctor of Medicine, Royal University Malta, 1969. Master of Science, University College London, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, University West Indies, 1979.
He entered the then University College of the West Indies where he acquired an interest in Biochemistry. He subsequently gained a medical degree from the Royal University of Malta, a Masters degree from University College London, and a doctorate and two professorships from the University of the West Indies where he served as Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. He then left the University to become President of the University of Technology, Jamaica.
He has carried out pioneering work in the medical field with a particular interest is diabetes.
In 1982, he pioneered the formation of the Diabetes Association of the Caribbean, which now has 26 member countries, and was its President from 1985 to 1987 and its Vice President from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he launched the University Diabetes Outreach Project (UDOP) with the help of a Wolfson Foundation grant.
He played a key role in partnerships between the International Diabetes Federation and the Pan American Health Organization (Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization), in responding to the emerging pandemic of type 2 diabetes, by applying the Saint Vincent Declaration intervention model to the Americas, in the form of the Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes or DOTA (1996). In 1999 he was awarded a by the Institute of Jamaica.
(Book by Morrison, E. Y. St. A., Morrison, Errol Y. St A.)
Fellow American College of Physicians, Royal Society Medicine United Kingdom, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons. Member Caribbean Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences.
Married Mary Salome Galea, March 30, 1970. Children: Ruth, Sephora, Maya, Colette.