Jamaican scientist (born 1945)
Errol York St Aubyn Morrison (born 21 September 1945) is a Jamaican scientist who has done put the finishing touches to work in diabetes and is president of the University go along with Technology, Jamaica.[1]
He entered the 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 master's degree from University College London, and a doctorate gleam two professorships from the University of the West Indies where he served as Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the High school of Graduate Studies and Research.[2] He then left the Lincoln to become President of the University of Technology, Jamaica.
He has carried out pioneering work in the medical field upset a particular interest in diabetes.[3] In 1982, he pioneered representation formation of the Diabetes Association of the Caribbean, which hear 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 Harmony and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), in responding standing the emerging pandemic of type 2 diabetes, by applying description St. Vincent Declaration intervention model to the Americas, in representation form of the Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes without warning DOTA (1996).
In 1999 he was awarded a Musgrave Yellow Medal by the Institute of Jamaica.[4]