Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro

Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro Kt CBE (born January 20, 1944 in Achimota , Ghana ) is a British doctor and politician of the Conservative Party from Ghana who has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

Life

After attending the Dean Close School in Cheltenham , Ribeiro studied medicine at the Medical School of Middlesex Hospital , graduating in 1967 as a doctor of medicine . He then specialized in surgery and urology and worked between 1970 and 1972, first as the registrar for surgery at Orsett Hospital in Essex, and then from 1972 to 1978 as the registrar and finally as the chief registrar for surgery at the Middlesex Hospital. Between 1974 and 1975 he was also a lecturer in urology in Accra .

In 1979 he was Consultant physician of the National Health Service (NHS) in Basildon , where he worked until 2008. In addition, acted Ribeiro 1982-1992 as a member of the advisory board of the correctional facility in Chelmsford and between 1994 and 2003 both as a surgical consultant to the Expert Group on AIDS and the Advisory Board on Bloodborne Viruses. He was also Honorary Secretary of the Union of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland between 1991 and 1996.

After becoming a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS) in 1998 , he was President of the RCS from 2005 to 2008. In addition, Ribeiro, who was President of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland from 1999 to 2000, served as Medical Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board for Hospital Quality from 2002 to 2005 and as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at from 2006 to 2007 Chapel Hill . He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Dean Close School since 2006.

Ribeiro was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 20, 2010 as a life peer entitled Baron Ribeiro , of Achimota in the Republic of Ghana and of Ovington in the County of Hampshire . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party.

honors and awards

Ribeiro, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by Anglia Ruskin University in 2008 , is a 1972 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1972), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2001), the Royal College of Physicians (2006), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2008), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2008) and the Royal College of Anesthetists (2008).

He is also an external honorary member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ghana (2006), the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (2006), the Caribbean College of Surgeons (2007), the Académie de Chirurgie de Paris (2008) and the American College of Surgeons (2008).

Ribeiro, who was Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 and an Officer of the Order of the Volta of Ghana in 2008 , became a Knight Bachelor in 2009 and has since had the suffix "Sir".

Publications

• Concise Surgery (1998)
• Surgery in the United Kingdom (2001)
• Emergency Surgery: Principles and Practice (2006)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on October 28, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 28, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed October 28, 2012)