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Exhibition to honour the new Principal of the Mona Campus, Professor McDonald

 

Exhibition to Honour the new Principal of the Mona Campus, Professor Archibald McDonald

 

Professor Archibald McDonald was formally inducted as Principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus at a  ceremony that took place on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 in the Graduation Tent on the lawns of the Senate Building.

Professor McDonald served as Deputy Principal of Mona, and is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mona.   He is a graduate of the UWI and received his postgraduate DM degree in 1987.  He has had an outstanding career as a surgeon in Trauma and Emergency Medicine.  He is credited with starting the first Accident and Emergency Department in Jamaica at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).  With colleagues, he established the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Programme in Jamaica and conducted seminal studies that defined the epidemiology of injury in Jamaica which led to development of Jamaica’s Injury Surveillance System.  He has published some 125 papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals.

 

 

 

 

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