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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 1ST MARCH, 2015
OUR CAMPUS
The UWI has announced
two senior management changes
to drive the strategic direction of the regional institution in
its delivery of world-class teaching and online education.
The current Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor of The
UWI Open Campus, as well as former Deputy Principal of
The UWI Cave Hill Campus, Professor V. Eudine Barriteau,
has been appointed as Principal Designate of UWI CaveHill.
Meanwhile, Dr Luz Longsworth, current Director of The
UWI Mona’s Western Jamaica Campus has been selected
as Acting Principal of the Open Campus for a period of
one year. Both appointments take effect from May 1, 2015.
Professor Barriteau’s move to the Cave Hill Campus comes
as incumbent, Sir Hilary Beckles, transitions to his new
position as Vice-Chancellor of the University, also from
May 1, 2015.
Professor Barriteau has served nine months as the
second Principal of the Open Campus. Grenadian by birth,
with a distinguished record as a Caribbean scholar and
administrator, Professor Barriteau has held several positions
at various ranks at The UWI for over 30 years. She received
her PhD in Political Science from Howard University, an
MPA in Public Sector Financial Management from New
York University and a BSc in Public Administration and
Accounting fromThe UWI.
Dr Luz Longsworth holds a Doctorate in Business
Administration inHigher EducationManagement from the
University of Bath in the UK. She is also a graduate of The
UWI where she earned her BA in French and Spanish and
MBA (Marketing) degrees. She is the holder of a Master of
Arts degree in Hispanic Studies from Queen’s University,
Ontario, Canada. Dr Longsworth has over 25 years of
experience in both academia and business in Jamaica, the
British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Belize.
Professorial
Appointments
The Faculty of Assessment
and Promotions
Committee of The UWI (FAPC) has agreed
to promote Dr. Francis Dziva to the level
of Professor. Dr. Dziva is currently a Senior
Lecturer in Veterinary Bacteriology and a
member of the Royal Veterinary College of
Surgeons (UK) and a member of the Society of
General Microbiology (UK).
Dr. Patrick
Akpaka has also
been appointed
a P r o f e s s o r .
D r . A k p a k a ,
DM, MBBS, is
c u r r e nt l y t he
Course Convenor
and Lecturer for
several courses
in the Unit of
P a t h o l o g y &
Mi c r ob i o l o g y
a n d t h e B S c
O p t o m e t r y
programme at the
FacultyofMedical
Sciences.
School of
Dentistry
Director
Profes sor Montgomer y
Raymand McAulay-Rieger
has been appointedDirector of
the School of Dentistry, at the
Faculty of Medical Sciences,
The UWI, St. Augustine.
Professor McAulay-Rieger earned his Bachelor of
Science degree in Ceramic Engineering in 1973 and his
Master of Science degree in Engineering, specializing in
Bioceramics in 1974 at the Ohio State University. While at
OSU, he was a Ralph D. Mershon Scholar and an Edward
Orton, Jr. Fellow and was an inaugural member of the OSU
Judicial Committee overseeing all student courts at OSU.
From 1974 to 1980, he attended the University of Virginia
as a National Institutes of Health Research Associate and a
DuPont Fellow. He received his PhD in Materials Science
specializing in biomaterials and biomechanics in 1980.
After several years in academia as an assistant and associate
professor in Dentistry and Biomedical Engineering, he
entered the University of Texas Health Science Center
in Houston Dental Branch where he received his DDS
and completed a collaborative internship in international
healthcare through Richmond College in London. With his
dual doctorates in Dentistry and Engineering, he headed
the division of Oral Biomaterials at King Saud University
in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a professor and
consultant and created the first PhD programme in Clinical
Oral Biomaterials in the Middle East.
Ocho to
Head Nursing
School
The UWI St. Augustine Campus
has appointed Dr. Oscar Noel
Ocho as the Director of The UWI
School of Nursing (UWISoN).
Dr. Oscar Noel Ocho is a
qualified Registered Nurse (RN)
and has served in a number of
departments within the Ministry of Health encompassing
Registered Nurse, Nursing Educator, Health Education Officer,
Director and until recently the Acting Chief Nursing Officer.
Dr. Ocho is a Packard/Gates Population Leadership Fellow
from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA as well as
one of the first cohort of professionals who participated in the
CaribbeanHealth Leadership Institute scholarship programme
for health leaders in the Caribbean 2007/2008.
His academic qualifications include a BScN (Education)
from The UWI, Mona, Jamaica (1995); MPH (International
Health) University of Washington, Seattle, USA 2005 and
MPhil in Sociology fromThe UWI, St. Augustine (2007) and a
Doctorate in Public Health with an emphasis on Public Health
and Policy since 2013 from the London School of hygiene and
Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Ocho has served as a motivational speaker to youth
in the Caribbean including Trinidad and Tobago as well as
Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados andGuyana. He has also served
as Vice President of theNursing Council of Trinidad and Tobago
as well as Chairman for Casa de Corazon; a home for abused
children in Trinidad and Tobago.
NEWLEADERS
Dr Luz Longworth
Professor Eudine Barriteau
Dr. Patrick Akpaka
