Sheila Dorothy King
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Barbadian-Jamaican microbiologist
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Sheila Dorothy King's Degrees
- Bachelors Microbiology University of the West Indies
- Masters Microbiology University of the West Indies
- PhD Microbiology University of the West Indies
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sheila Dorothy King, CD was a Barbadian-born, Jamaican academic and physician. She was the second woman to be appointed as full professor at the University of the West Indies . She was the first woman appointed as a professor in the Faculty of Medicine in 1983, ten years after she was appointed as head of UWI's Microbiology Department. A specialist in infectious disease and viral epidemiology, she advised numerous national, regional and international departments and governmental agencies on such diseases as dengue, influenza, and typhoid. In 1998, she was honored as a Commander of the Order of Distinction.
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