Dr William Foster presents Sir Philip Sherlock Lecture; earns award
NOTED JAMAICAN cardiologist, Dr William Foster, CD, has accepted the request of the University Diabetes Outreach Programme (UDOP) to deliver the 2019 Sir Philip Sherlock Distinguished Lecture at the 25th Annual International Diabetes Conference scheduled to take place at the Jewel Resort, St Ann’s Bay, between Thursday, April 25 and Saturday, April 27. Dr Foster will deliver his lecture on Friday, April 26 at 11 a.m.
His topic is: Diabetes management, paralleling national development.
Dr Foster will also receive the
distinguished award named for Sir Philip Sherlock, a former vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. Sir Philip was passionate about Caribbean history and culture, and their importance to national development. He believed in the innate potential of the people of the region to chart their own course, given the opportunities.
He is being awarded for ‘years of selfless service to and support of persons in need of cardiovascular intervention’.
Dr Foster mirrors many of the values upheld by Sir Philip Sherlock. A humanitarian par excellence, he has sent over 750 unfunded Jamaicans overseas in need of heart surgery, but who were unable to afford it.
The Sir Philip Sherlock awardee received his tertiary education at the Howard University, United States, where he earned a BSc in 1963 and an MD in 1967.
He served as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine at New England Deaconess Hospital (1970s). He was Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies (1982-2017). He went into private practice in Jamaica 1972 (to present).
He has membership in several professional societies, including Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (1963). He is a Fellow, Cardiology, New England Deaconess, and Fellow Cardiology, Howard University. AWARDS
Dr Foster is the recipient of a number of prestigious honours and awards. He received a Jamaican National Award, the Order of Distinction, Commander Class, in 2006 . In 1962, he earned one from the Beta Kappa Chi Honor Society, Howard University, and was named Intern of the Year by Howard University in 1968).
He has authored two books and is preparing a third on poetry.