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Dr, MB.ChB (St And), MD (Dundee), DTM & H (Edin), MRACP, D.Obst.RCOG,. FRACP, FAFPHM.
Dr Euan Scrimgeour graduated from St Andrews University in 1962, and after junior posts in Scotland, spent 3 years in general practice in Perth, Western Australia. In 1970-1971 he completed the 6-month full-time Diploma course in Tropical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh obtaining the DTM&H. On return to Perth, he worked as a Medical Registrar in RPH and SCGH, obtaining the MRACP in 1973. Deciding to specialize in Tropical and Infectious Diseases, initially he obtained teaching and research posts in Papua New Guinea (1977-1982) and Tanzania (1979). In 1985-1986, he spent a year as Visiting Scientist, in the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, researching prion diseases and schistosomiasis of the CNS. Subsequently, he obtained academic posts in Zimbabwe (1987-1989), Saudi Arabia (1991-1993), and the Sultanate of Oman, (1994-2006). In the Medical School in Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, where he was the Head of the Tropical and Infectious Diseases Unit, he introduced and conducted a 6-month part-time course in Tropical and Infectious Diseases for small groups of young Omani doctors. Between 1996 and 2006, 37 Omani doctors obtained the DTM&H qualification in the annual open examination in London. The Oman School of Tropical Medicine was accredited by the Royal College of Physicians of London as the ‘’only School of Tropical Medicine outside the UK, that provided appropriate training for the London examination.’’
Among other responsibilities in Oman, he was Chairman of the University Hospital Infection Control Committee, and Chairman of the Antibiotic Committee.
During most of his 11 years in Oman, Dr Scrimgeour was the only Infectious Diseases (Adult Medicine) consultant in the country (with a population of over 2 million). As a consequence, he was appointed by the Department of Health of the Sultanate of Oman as a consultant advising National Policies and Disease Control in numerous areas including schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, filariasis, leprosy and tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hepatitis, and AIDS and also prion diseases (CJD and BSE). Ihe wrote the first National Policy for control of viral haemorrhagic fever, and participated in the National Policy for HIV infection/AIDS. From 1997 to 2006, he was a Member of the Oman National Poliomyelitis team reporting to the World Health Organization.
His research interests are Tropical and Infectious Diseases, also Tropical Neurology, and he has published 104 papers between 1969-2012. He contributed to several textbooks, including chapters on Parasitology of the CNS in the 1st to 3rd editions of Infectious Diseases (Mosby Elsevier) 1999, 2003, and 2010.
He also has a special interest in Huntington’s disease in tropical countries, first reporting affected families in Papua, New Guinea, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, and the Sultanate of Oman. He is a life-member of the HD Association of WA.
On returning to Perth in 2006, he was appointed Adjunct Clinical Professor in the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at UWA, teaching Clinical Parasitology and Tropical Public Health, in the Diploma and Master of Infection Courses. Between 2007 and 2014, he undertook numerous consultant locum appointments with the West Australian Country Health Service in Broome in the Kimberley and in Port Hedland, the Pilbara, which involved extensive involvement in and contribution to Aboriginal Health programs.
Establishing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM & H) course in the Sultanate of Oman. Scrimgeour EM. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2004:80:221-223.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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