April 2013


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New positions

Three senior lecturers at The UWI have been promoted to the rank of Professor based on their academic qualifications, research achievements and active involvement in the University community. They are Michael McFarlane, Yasodananda Kumar Areti and Rajendra Ramlogan.

Professor Michael McFarlane joined the University in 1986 and was awarded indefinite tenure in 2006. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and simultaneously held the post of Consultant Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care at UWI’s Mona Campus in Jamaica.

Before his Professorial appointment Yasodananda Kumar Areti was promoted to the post of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at UWI’s Cave Hill Campus in Barbados in 2009.

Professor Rajendra Ramlogan has lectured in the Department of Management Studies at the St. Augustine Campus since 2001 when he joined the University. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005.

The UWI has also appointed Mrs Laleta Davis-Mattis as University Counsel and Head of the Legal Unit, succeeding Dr Beverley Pereira, who has retired. A Jamaican, Mrs Davis-Mattis first joined the academic staff at the UWI Mona Campus as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2002 in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences and more recently, the Faculty of Law.