Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridgeshire ( born June 23, 1926) is a British veterinarian parasitologist, university teacher and politician of the Conservative Party, since 1990 as a Life Peer Member of the House of Lords.

Life

High school teacher and member of the House of Lords

After schooling Soulsby holds a degree in veterinary medicine and was after graduation 1949-1952 City Veterinary Edinburgh and then to 1954 Lecturer in Clinical Parasitology at the University of Bristol, before 1954-1964 Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology at the University of Cambridge had. He was also the 1963-1968 President of the World Organisation for Tierparasitologie.

In 1964 he accepted an appointment as a professor of Parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania and taught there until 1978. He was also the 1965-1978 leader of the local Department of Pathobiology. After his return to Britain, he was appointed in 1978 as professor of veterinary pathology at the University of Cambridge, where he taught until his retirement in 1993. In addition, he was from 1978 to 1993 and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Cambridge and Fellow at the same time there Wolfson College, which in 2004 appointed him an honorary Fellow.

In addition to teaching Soulsby was an advisor to many universities, organizations and governments such as 1973 to 1977 as chairman of the study group for parasitic diseases at the Research Institute of the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC Between 1985 and 1988 he was chairman of the Committee in support of animal research by the Agricultural and Food Research Council ( Agricultural and Food Research Council ) and at the same time from 1985 to 1997 Chairman of the Veterinary Advisory Committee of the Gaming Authority for horse racing ( Horse Race Betting Levy Borard ).

In addition, he was also a member of numerous organizations such as the Study Group for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH) in Washington, DC ( 1968-1972 ) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pan American Health Organization ( Organización Panamericana de la Salud ) for the zoonosis center in Buenos Aires ( 1974-1985 ).

By Letters Patent of 22 May 1990 Soulsby was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridgeshire in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. He belongs to the Group of the Conservative Party. In the following years he took over the House of Lords some functions and was also a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology and Chairman of the Inquiry Sub-Committee on antimicrobial resistance and the Study Subcommittee on infection control.

Academic offices and honors

Soulsby, the Fellow of the Royal School of Medicine (1996) and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (1997), was also president of many educational institutions such as the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ( 1984-1985 ), the Royal Society of Medicine (1998 to 2000), the Royal Institute of Public Health (2003), the Royal Society for Public Health ( 2007) and the Foundation for Education and Research of the Windward Islands.

In addition, he became a corresponding member or honorary member of many domestic and foreign scientific institutions such as the German Society of Parasitology (1980 ), the Argentine Association of Tierparasitologen (1984 ), the British Society of Parasitologists (1989 ), the Helminthological Society of Washington ( 1990), the British Veterinary Association ( 1991) and the Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique ( 1992).

For his many years of teaching and research activities, he has received several awards, including inter alia with the RN Chaudhury Gold Medal of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine in 1976, the Behring - Bilharz Prize in 1977, Ludwig- Schunk Prize of the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen in 1979, the Frederich fair Meier Medal of the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1990, the Chiron Award from the British veterinary Association in 1998, the CABI Bioscience Millennium Award in 2004, the Mike Fisher Award from the St George 's University of Grenada in 2006, the Distinguished Service Award from the St. George 's University of Grenada, 2006 and the Award of Wight British Association of Small Animal Medicine, 2009.

In addition, Soulsby were some honorary doctorates awarded as by the University of Pennsylvania ( 1985), the University of Edinburgh in 1990, the Universidad de León ( 1993), the University of Peradeniya (1994 ), the University of Glasgow (2001), the University of Liverpool in 2004 and the University of Lincoln ( 2007).

Publications

Soulsby was not only the author of 14 books, but also from more than 200 articles and essays in journals. Among his most important publications, the Textbook of veterinary clinical parasitology, Oxford 1965 belongs.