Biographical Sketch

Emeritus professor of Pathology and Medical Laboratory Department
in the University of British Columbia

Professor William Black has graduated in Medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1963, and then took specialty training for six years in Medical Microbiology, earning a medical degree also by the Royal College of Pathologists, in the United Kingdom. Since 2007, he is an emeritus professor of Pathology and Medical Laboratory Department in the University of British Columbia, established in Vancouver, Canada. Also, he was distinguished with the member degree of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1976, which enables him to command advanced medical procedures in different countries.

Regarding is professional career, he has served as Director of the Canadian Service for National Reference in Parasitology, and as Head of the Microbacteriology and Micology Department, in the Diseases Control Center. He also worked as Director in the Provincial Public Health Laboratories, also in Canada. During his extensive career he has developed valuable contributions in multiple research fields, which include subjects specifically related to Health sciences, such as the study of bacteria and tropical parasites up to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and antibiotics. He has also commanded research regarding administrative and clinical phenomenon in medical institutions all over the world. On the latter, he has researched in different countries, including Ontario and Vancouver, in Canada; Glasgow, in the United Kingdon and Mexico City, Jalisco and Hidalgo, in Mexico. His outstanding contributions on the biological and health sciences research fields has always been relevant and fruitful for the scientific, faculty and student community of our university.