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PRINCE MAHIDOL AWARD FOUNDATION under the Royal Patronage 2nd Floor, Mahidolbumpen Building, Siriraj Hospital 2 Prannok Road, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok 10700 Thailand Tel 662 418-2568, 662 419-7187 Fax 662 412-9717 E-mail: pmaf@mahidol.ac.th Website: www.princemahidolaward.org 63 CONTENTS Page Welcoming Address to the Special Lectures 6 Schedule of the Special Lectures by the Prince Mahidol Award 10 Laureates 2012 His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla 11 The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation 19 รางวัลสมเด็จเจ้าฟ้ามหิดล 22 ตราสารมูลนิธิรางวัลสมเด็จเจ้าฟ้ามหิดล ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์ 25 Members of Board of Trustees 31 Previous Prince Mahidol Award Laureates (1992-2011) 33 Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 55 - Sir Michael David Rawlins 56 - Dr.Uche Veronica Amazigo 58 List of the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates Who Already Passed Away 60 Editorial Committee 61 5 WELCOMING ADDRESS TO THE SPECIAL LECTURES BY THE 2012 PRINCE MAHIDOL AWARD LAUREATES By Clinical Professor Udom Kachintorn, Dean Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand 6 Sir Michael D. Rawlins, Dr. Uche V. Amazigo, Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen On behalf of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, it is my great honor to welcome all of you to the special lectures by the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates of the year 2012. We are delighted and pleased to especially welcome the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates of the year 2012 and we are grateful that both of them have taken the time to come here and share their great accomplishments and contributions to us. The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage was established in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla, on January 1, 1992. The Foundation is under Royal Patronage, with Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn as president. The Foundation annually confers two Prince Mahidol Awards upon individual(s) or institution(s), which have demonstrated outstanding and exemplary contributions to the advancement of the world’s medical and public health services. Each award consists of a medal, a certificate and a sum of US $100,000. In the year of 2012, the award in the field of Medicine goes to Sir Michael David Rawlins, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, United Kingdom and in the field of Public Health to Dr. Uche Veronica Amazigo, former Director of African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Federal Republic of Nigeria. Sir Michael David Rawlins was the Founding Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Honorary Professor, 7 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He is considered a pioneer in bringing approaches and practices of scienetific and clinical based evidences to evaluate the efficiency and worthiness of drugs, instruments and medical procedures. He determined guidelines for medical treatment, incorporating the highest benefit and cost efficiency. He established the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in 1999 to systematically evaluate both positive and negative effects that occurred in the past, present and future, including effects in health, economic, social and moral dimensions. Sir Michael David Rawlins’ contribution provides patients with the highest attainable standard of healthcare and cost efficiency throughout the UK. Dr. Uche Veronica Amazigo received Ph.D in Biology and Medical Parasitology from the University of Vienna in Austria, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Parasitology from the Bernhard-Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany and Fellowship in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.A. Dr. Amazigo was considered a leading figure in the introduction and application of community-directed treatment and control of important diseases. She developed a model that made it possible for community members to play a role in distributing medicine to the affected population. she is instrumental in the success of the control on Onchocerciasis (river blindness) in strengthening community health system in 500,000 communities across 19 countries covered by the African Programme of Onchocerciasis (APOC) of the World Health Organization, especially while she was the Director of the Programme from 2005 – 2011. 8 Without any further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleas- ure to welcome our honorary Prince Mahidol Award Laureates. I wish all of you a pleasant stay here in Thailand and I hope you will be able to bring some good memories back to your home. 9 The Special Lectures by the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 January 29, 2013 at the Rajapanadda-Sirindhorn Auditorium Srisavarindhira Building, 1st Floor Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 1.00 pm Registration 1.30 pm Welcome Ceremony 1.35 pm Opening address by Clinical Professor Udom Kachintorn, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital 1.40 pm Results of the Prince Mahidol Award 2012 by Clinical Professor Supat Vanichakarn, Secretary General of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation 1.50 pm Introduce the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 in the field of Medicine by Associate Professor Cherdchai Nopmaneejumruslers 1.55 pm Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 Lecture: Bench to Bedside by Sir Michael David Rawlins 2.25 pm Introduce the Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 in the field of Public Health by Associate Professor Dr. Darawan Wanachiwanawin 2.30 pm Prince Mahidol Award Laureates 2012 Lecture: Envisioning an end to River Blindness: harnessing the power of communities by Dr.Uche Veronica Amazigo 3.00 pm Questions and Answers 3.15 pm Closing Ceremony by Professor Prasit Wattanapa, Deputy Dean and Director of Medical School, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital 3.30 pm High tea 10 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE MAHIDOL OF SONGKLA His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla was born on January 1st, 1892, to Their Majesties King Chulalongkorn and Queen Savang Vadhana. He was brought up in his formative years according to the Royal Thai tradition and ordained as a Buddhist novice like his brothers before receiving his education at Harrow, a renowned Public School in England. He then proceeded to Germany to continue his studies in accordance with the wishes of his father who was a close friend of Emperor William II. Prince Mahidol first attended the Royal Prussian Military Preparatory College at Potsdam which also offered courses on humanities and sciences in addition to military science. This liberal education background as well as self-study and sedulous visits to museums during that period together helped to form the intellectual and philosophical basis of his attitude and personality. Prince Mahidol subsequently attended the Imperial Military Academy at Gross Lichterfelde in Berlin for two more years. He then followed the wishes of His Majesty King Vajiravudh by entering the Nurwik Imperial German Naval Academy at Flensbourg in 1912. In that year, Prince Mahidol was commissioned by His Majesty King Vajiravudh as Lieutenant in the Royal Thai Navy. He was concurrently commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Imperial German Navy. Prince Mahidol completed his naval study but was prevented from joining the Imperial German Navy since he was instructed by His Majesty King Vajiravudh to return to Thailand at the outbreak of the First World War. After a year’s service in the Royal Thai Navy, Prince Mahidol resigned, with His Majesty King Vajiravudh’s permission, to pursue a civilian career. This was both the decisive turning point in his personal life and a momentous national event signalling his lasting contributions to the advancement of higher education, especially in the fields of basic sciences, public health, medicine, nursing and medical research. 12 H.R.H. Prince Mahidol with H.R.H. The Prince Mother and his daughter Princess Galayani Vadhana Prince Mahidol had noted, while serving in the Royal Thai Navy, the serious need for improvement in the standard of medical practitioners and public health in Thailand. In undertaking such mission, Prince Mahidol set in motion a whole range of activities in accordance with his conviction that human resources development at the national level was of utmost importance and his belief that improvement of public health constituted an essential factor in national development. One of his primary tasks was to lay a solid foundation for teaching basic sciences which Prince Mahidol pursued through all necessary measures. These included the provision of a considerable sum of his own money as scholarships for six talented students to study physics, chemistry and biology in England. Upon their return, these 13 students formed the core of well-qualified teaching staff in basic sciences which the country had hitherto lacked. Once the teaching of basic sciences was well established, the teaching of other fields of applied sciences was upgraded. Here, Prince Mahidol placed special emphasis on medical education, public health, nursing, and medical research. His initiative and effort produced a most remarkable and lasting impact on the improvement of modern medicine and public health in Thailand such that he was subsequently honoured with the title of “Father of Modern Medicine and Public Health”. In implementing his plan for institutional development in these areas, Prince Mahidol decided to study public health and medicine himself. Upon leaving the Royal Thai Navy, he proceeded to the United States and enrolled at Harvard University in 1916. In spite of having to shuttle between Harvard for his study and Thailand for his official duties and work as well as Siriraj Hospital during the initial phase 14 his ill health, Prince Mahidol managed to concentrate on his study. He succeeded and received the Certificate of Public Health in 1921, the degree of Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) in 1928 and the honour of Alpha Omega Alpha membership. During the first period of his residence at Harvard, Prince Mahidol also negotiated and concluded, on behalf of the Royal Thai Government, an agreement with the Rockefeller Foundation on assistance for medical and nursing education in Thailand.