Soulsby L
J R Soc Med. 1998 Sep;91(9):496-7.
On 21 July, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior took office as President of the Royal Society of Medicine. He qualified mrcvs from Edinburgh in 1948 and held lectureships in Bristol and Cambridge before appointment as Professor of Parasitology in the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. There he stayed for fourteen years, returning to Cambridge in 1978 as Professor of Animal Pathology (now Emeritus). His work as a parasitologist has taken him to the USSR, Nigeria, India, Australia, South America, China and numerous countries of Europe. Earlier presidencies have included the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the World Association for the Advancement of Parasitology, the Cambridge Society for Comparative Medicine, and the Comparative Medicine Section of the RSM (1993-95); he is Patron of the Fund for Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments. He has been a consultant to international bodies including WHO, the UN Development Programme, FAO, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Created a life peer in 1990 (now on the Opposition benches), he chaired a Select Committee on antibiotic resistance whose report appeared earlier this year. He is interviewed here by Robin Fox.
7月21日，斯沃弗姆普赖尔的索尔兹比勋爵就任皇家医学学会会长。他于1948年在爱丁堡获得英国皇家兽医学会会员资格，先后在布里斯托尔和剑桥担任讲师，1964年被任命为宾夕法尼亚大学寄生虫学教授。他在那里工作了14年，1978年回到剑桥担任动物病理学教授（现为名誉教授）。作为一名寄生虫学家，他的工作使他去过苏联、尼日利亚、印度、澳大利亚、南美洲、中国以及欧洲的许多国家。他曾担任过的会长职务包括皇家兽医学院、世界寄生虫学促进会、剑桥比较医学学会以及皇家医学学会比较医学分会（1993 - 1995年）；他还是医学实验动物替代基金的赞助人。他曾是包括世界卫生组织、联合国开发计划署、联合国粮食及农业组织以及国际原子能机构在内的国际机构的顾问。1990年被封为终身贵族（现处于反对党席位），他曾主持一个关于抗生素耐药性的特别委员会，该委员会的报告于今年早些时候发表。罗宾·福克斯在此对他进行了采访。
