Wallace Peters

Wallace Peters ( born April 1, 1924 in London ) is a British physician ( Parasitology, Tropical Medicine), who is known for his research on malaria. He has also appeared as a lepidopterist.

Life

Peters attended the Medical School of the Bartholomew's Hospital, London University. Subsequently he was a doctor in West and East Africa, including from 1947 to 1953 for the Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ). 1953 to 1955 he worked for the WHO as malaria entomologist and specialist in Liberia and Nepal, and then from 1956 to 1961 in Papua New Guinea. 1961 to 1966 he conducted research at CIBA in Basel. 1966 to 1979 he was Professor of Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ( LSTM ), where he was (followed by HM Gilles) 1975-1978 Dean. From 1979 until his retirement in 1989, he was Professor ( Medical Protozoology ) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ( LSHTM ).

He was from 1978 to 1989 Consultant of Parasitology of the Camden Area Health Authority, adviser to the British Army in Malaria Questions and from 1967 in the expert committee of the WHO for malaria. From 1999 he was Director of the Centre for Tropical antiprotozoal Chemotherapy at Northwick Park Institute of Medical Research.

Honors

In 1983, Peter the King Faisal Prize for Medicine. 1987/88 he was president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, whose honor he is a member. For his contributions to malaria research in 1980, he received the Rudolf Leuckart Medal of the German Society for Parasitology. The Joseph Augustin Leprince Medal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ( ASTMH ) whose honor he is a member, was awarded to him in 1994. Peters holds honorary doctorates from the University of Descartes in Paris.

Writings

  • Checklist of Ethiopian Butterflies, 1952.
  • Chemotherapy and Drug Resistance in Malaria, Academic Press, 1970, 2 volumes, 1987.
  • With Geoffrey Pasvol: Tropical medicine and parasitology, Mosby, 2001, 6th edition, 2007.
  • With HM Gilles Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology, 1977, 1995.
  • As co-editor: Rodent Malaria, 1978.
  • As co-editor: Pharmacology of Antimalarials, 2 volumes, 1984.
  • As co-editor of leishmaniases in biology and medicine, 1987.
  • Atlas of arthropod in clinical medicine, 1992.
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