Guidelines for the Nomination and Election of Honorary Members

Honorary Members of the WAAVP are people who have contributed in a distinguished manner to the advancement of Veterinary Parasitology. They do not need to be veterinarians or members of the WAAVP. Such contributions can include research, teaching, distinction in the form of scholarly publications, administration of programmes of an outstanding national or international nature.

Please nominate candidates by submitting names along with a supporting statement. Nominators must be members of WAAVP. The Honorary Membership Committee will consider nominations in time for them to be awarded at the next biannual meeting.

Honorary Members will be exempt from membership subscriptions.

Nominations should be sent to the WAAVP Secretary, Tim Geary at timothy.g.geary@mcgill.ca

Honorary Members and the year awarded are as follows:

• 1967 Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin* (Soviet Union), Benjamin Schwartz* (USA), Witold Stefanski* (Poland)
• 1975 Norman R. Stoll * (USA), Rudolf Wetzel* (Germany), Vladimir Stepanovich Ershov* (Soviet Union)
• 1981 M. Abdussalam* (Switzerland), Karl Enigk* (Germany), Hugh McLeod Gordon* (Australia)
• 1983 Norman Dion Levine* (United States of America), D.F. Stewart* (Australia)
• 1985 Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby* (United Kingdom)
• 1987 Jacques Achille Marie Euzéby* (France), Rudolf Supperer* (Austria)
• 1993 C. Campbell (United States of America), Bernard Bezubik* (Poland), Miguel Cordero del Campillo (Spain)
• 1995 James Armour* (United Kingdom), Johannes Eckert (Switzerland), Sayed Gaafar* (USA), G. Luffau (France), George Macdonald Urquhart* (United Kingdom)
• 1997 Theodor Hiepe* (Germany), A. Donald (Australia), Joseph Boray* (Australia), Joseph Owen Douglas Slocombe* (Canada)
• 1999 Tibor Kassai (Hungary), Christos A. Himonas* (Greece), H.W. Mulligan (United Kingdom)
• 2001 James L. Duncan (United Kingdom), Ivan G. Horak (South Africa), Peter Nansen* (Denmark), Gerhard A. Schad* (United States of America)
• 2003 J. Williams (United States of America), Martin Eysker (the Netherlands)
• 2005 Steve M. Taylor (United Kingdom)
• 2007 Dennis Jacobs (United Kingdom)
• 2009 Fred H.M. Borgsteede (the Netherlands), Frank Jackson (United Kingdom)
• 2011 Ian Beveridge (Australia), Kozo Fujisaki (Japan), Louis C. Gasbarre (United States of America)
• 2015 Tom Klei, (United States of America), Eugene T. Lyons (United States of America), Tom Craig (United States of America), Jitender P. Dubey (United States of America), Roger Prichard (Canada), Jozef Vercruysse (Belgium), T.B. Stewart (United States of America)
• 2017 Chris Arme (UK), Ifor Lunt Owen (Australia)
• 2019 Panchadcharam Chandrawathani (Malaysia), Rosina (Tammi) Krecek (USA), Ann R. Donoghue (United States of America)
• 2023 Maggie Fisher (United Kingdom), Barend Louis Penzhorn (South Africa)
• 2025 William Ernest Pomroy (New Zealand), Thomas James Kennedy (United States of America), Peter Anthony Holdsworth (United Kingdom) 

 *Deceased