The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia to Host the 5th Annual Lady Marilyn Floissac Memorial Lecture
The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, will on Thursday 17th October, 2019 host The 5th Annual Lady Marilyn Floissac Memorial Lecture at its Morne Fortune campus.
This year we are honoured to have as our distinguished guest speaker, Yuri Clement (PhD.), Professor of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The UWI St. Augustine Campus. Professor Clement will be speaking on the controversial topic: “Herbal Remedies, Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements in the Treatment of Cancer: Do They Work?” The lecture will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Lady Marilyn Consuela Theresa Floissac (nee Bristol) joined the ranks of a line of distinguished Resident Tutors of the former School of Continuing Studies of The University of the West Indies, Saint Lucia (1982) which she headed until her retirement in 1993. During her distinguished tenure, Lady Floissac worked assiduously to ensure the provision of academic and administrative support for students following The UWI’s ‘Challenge Examination Programme’, via its then pioneering teleconferencing system.
The inauguration of an annual Memorial Lecture was conceived therefore, as a fitting way to honour Lady Floissac's memory and her sterling contribution to The UWI and the people of Saint Lucia. Established in 2015, The Memorial Lecture celebrates her life and work, and has become a much anticipated fixture on The Open Campus Saint Lucia's annual calendar of events.
The public is invited to attend what is sure to be a most enlightening presentation followed by the usual lively post lecture discussion for which the Open Campus is well known.
All are welcome to attend this FREE public lecture!
ABOUT PROFESSOR YURI CLEMENT
Professor Clement earned his BSc degree in Chemistry at UWI and started work as a laboratory technician in the Pharmacology Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI in Trinidad in 1991. Following completion of his PhD in Pharmacology at The UWI he pursued Royal Society (UK Academy of Sciences) and Wellcome Trust post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Liverpool. On his return to UWI in 2001, he started his academic career as a Lecturer in Pharmacology. Since then, his research has focused on herbal medicine use, and drug therapy and disease control in diabetes and hypertension in Trinidad.
Recently, he completed surveys on patients’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding marijuana use in cancer and glaucoma. As a form of public education he has written over 50 articles in the Daily Express newspaper in Trinidad which critically assessed the clinical evidence regarding herbal remedies and dietary supplements. Professor Clement is actively involved with the longstanding Caribbean-wide network of researchers (TRAMIL - Traditional Medicine in the Islands) which has developed a Caribbean Herbal Pharmacopeia.
About The UWI
Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a fully-fledged, regional University with over 50,000 students. Today, The UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with three physical campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and an Open Campus. The UWI serves 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos. The UWI’s faculty and students come from more than 40 countries and The University has collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology and Social Sciences. The UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation.
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