Minerva Thame, MB,BS; DCH; DM(Paeds); PhD; FAcadMEd

  Minerva Thame is a Professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Medicine and a Consultant Paediatrician, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, at The UWI/ UHWI.  She is involved in active clinical neonatology, administration and research.  Her research involves the roles of maternal anthropometry and body composition on fetal growth in pregnant women with Sickle Cell Disease and pregnant adolescents comparing them to the mature pregnant women. She has published on the relationship between maternal nutritional status and pregnancy outcome using stable isotope techniques demonstrating the way in which the adolescent uses nutrients in pregnancy compared to the mature pregnant adult.  Clinically, she is one of the Consultants in charge of the Special Care Nursery/ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies.  Her clinical role involves caring for the neonate and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in paediatrics.    In 2007 and 2009 she received the Principal’s Award for the Most Outstanding Researcher in the Faculty of Medical Sciences receiving also the Principal’s Award for Best Research Publication for the three publications in 2009.  She was recognized by the Rotary Club and received the Paul Harris Fellow Award in 2009 for recognition of her work in clinical medicine in Jamaica.   In 2011 she received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the Category of Research.