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, Richard Wall at richard.wall@bristol.ac.uk

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* (USA), D.F. Stewart* (Australia)
• 1985 Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby* (UK)
• 1987 Jacques Achille Marie Euzéby* (France), Rudolf Supperer* (Austria)
• 1993 C. Campbell (USA), Bernard Bezubik* (Poland), Miguel Cordero del Campillo (Spain)
• 1995 James Armour* (UK), Johannes Eckert (Switzerland), Sayed Gaafar* (USA), G. Luffau (France), George Macdonald Urquhart* (UK)
• 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 (UK)
• 2001 James L. Duncan (UK), Ivan G. Horak (South Africa), Peter Nansen* (Denmark), Gerhard A. Schad* (USA)
• 2003 J. Williams (USA), Martin Eysker (the Netherlands)
• 2005 Steve M. Taylor (UK)
• 2007 Dennis Jacobs (UK)
• 2009 Fred H.M. Borgsteede (the Netherlands), Frank Jackson (UK)
• 2011 Ian Beveridge (Australia), Kozo Fujisaki (Japan), Louis C. Gasbarre (USA)
• 2015 Tom Klei, (USA), Eugene T. Lyons (USA), Tom Craig (USA), Jitender P. Dubey (USA), Roger Prichard (Canada), Jozef Vercruysse (Belgium), T.B. Stewart (USA)
• 2017 Chris Arme (UK), Ifor Lunt Owen (Australia)
• 2019 Panchadcharam Chandrawathani (Malaysia), Rosina (Tammi) Krecek (USA), Ann R. Donoghue (USA)
• 2023 Maggie Fisher (UK), Barend Louis Penzhorn (South Africa)

 *Deceased