The University of the West Indies is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Carlos Escoffery, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, at the Mona Campus, to the post of Professor.

Professor Escoffery graduated from The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus with the Bachelor of Science (Special) degree in Anatomy with First Class Honours, and went on to obtain the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree as well as the Doctor of Medicine (D.M.) in Pathology. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Pathology at the UWI, Mona Campus in 1985, was awarded tenure in 1991 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1995. He has been Consultant Pathologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies since 1985. Professor Escoffery has also served as Consultant Pathologist to the Technical Advisory Group for Cancer of the Cervix in the Ministry of Health Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control Programme which is involved in an ongoing effort to devise, implement, monitor and manage a national cervical cancer-screening programme for Jamaica, and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Development of Postgraduate Diploma in Cytology at the University of Technology.

Professor Escoffery has a significant reputation as teacher, trainer and researcher. He has been a very effective teacher in the undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes of the Department of Pathology and is actively involved in postgraduate education in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He is also involved in the education of medical technologists and has played an active role in the diagnostic services of the Department.

Carlos Escoffery is a capable researcher who has maintained a solid output of publications in peer reviewed journals in the broad field of histopathology and morbid anatomy. His areas of special interest have been Urogenital Pathology of the male and female, Autopsy Pathology, including medico-legal autopsies, Cytopathology and Perinatal Pathology. The majority of his publications have focused on issues of particular relevance to the practice of medicine, paediatrics and pathology in the West Indies, but with wider importance in the international arena. They include issues relating to Perinatal Mortality involving post mortem examination, Autopsy studies, the Pathology of Prostate Cancer and the relationship between HTLV1 and severe cervical dysplasia in women being investigated for cervical disease.

Professor Escoffery was one of the pathologists on the Jamaican Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Study the findings of which have allowed the Ministry of Health to concentrate its resources in a more meaningful way so as to reduce morbidity and mortality in mothers and infants. Another study in which Professor Escoffery has been involved includes a detailed analysis of prostate cancer in Jamaica, providing the first such data for the Caribbean and for black men outside the United States of America.

Professor Escoffery is a member of the International Society of Gynaecological Pathologists, the International Academy of Cytology, the International Retrovirology Association, the Jamaica Cancer Society, the Medical Association of Jamaica and the Jamaican Association of Clinical Pathologists.