Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro
Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro of Achimota in the Republic of Ghana and of Ovington in the County of Hampshire Kt CBE ( born January 20, 1944 in Achimota, Ghana ) is a native of Ghana, British physician and politician of the Conservative Party, who has been 2010 Life as a peer member of the House of Lords.
Life
After visiting the Dean Close School in Cheltenham Ribeiro graduated in medicine at the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital, where he graduated in 1967 as Doctor of Medicine. He then specialized as a specialist in surgery and urology and worked 1970-1972, first as registrar of Surgery at Orsett Hospital in Essex and subsequently from 1972 to 1978 as a registrar and most recently as Chief Registrar of Surgery at Middlesex Hospital. In addition, he was active in 1974 and 1975 as a lecturer in urology in Accra.
In 1979 he was Consultant Physician of the National Health Service ( NHS) in Basildon, where he worked until 2008. Besides Ribeiro served from 1982 to 1992 as a member of the Advisory Board of the correctional facility in Chelmsford, and between 1994 and 2003 both as a surgical consultant to the Expert Group on AIDS and the advisory Board on bloodborne viruses. In addition, he was between 1991 and 1996 Honorary Secretary of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.
After a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS ) it was 1998, he was from 2005 to 2008 president of the RCS. In addition, worked Ribeiro, who was from 1999 to 2000 president of the surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, between 2002 and 2005 in Medical Vice - Chairman of the Advisory Board for the quality of hospitals and from 2006 to 2007 as a visiting professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Dean Close School since 2006.
Ribeiro was raised by a Letters Patent dated 20 December 2010 as a life peer with the title Baron Ribeiro of Achimota in the Republic of Ghana and of Ovington in the County of Hampshire in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Conservative Party.
Honors and Awards
Ribeiro, who was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Anglia Ruskin University in 2008, 1972 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1972 ), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ( 2001), the Royal College of Physicians (2006), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ( 2008), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2008) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2008).
He is also a nonresident honorary member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ghana (2006), the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia ( 2006), the Caribbean College of Surgeons (2007), the Académie de Chirurgie de Paris (2008) and the American College of Surgeons (2008).
Ribeiro, who was 2004 Commander of the Order of the British Empire as well as 2008 Officer of the Order of the Volta of Ghana, was a Knight Bachelor in 2009 and has since contributed the additional name "Sir".
Publications
- Concise Surgery ( 1998)
- Surgery in the United Kingdom ( 2001)
- Emergency Surgery: Principles and Practice (2006)