Accra, July 24, GNA -- The International Biographical Centre (IBC) has awarded Dr Edmund Delle, Director of the Rabito Group of Clinics, its prestigious Marie Curie Award, for his contribution to the field of medicine both nationally and internationally.
The citation for the award said of Dr Delle: "Your reputation has been gained in your own lifetime and are, therefore, a most worthy recipient of the Marie Curie Award," the IBC statement to Ghana News Agency in Accra on Sunday stated.
Marie Curie Award is named after one of history's most acclaimed physicists, whose theorems and philosophies became world known and because she gained her reputation in her own lifetime. Dr Delle was decorated at the inaugural World Forum Federation at the Saints Catherine College, Oxford, England this month attended by more than 200 delegates from about 58 countries.
The Guest Speaker for the forum was international fundraiser Malcolm Fleming.
Other laureates were: Dr Linda Hood Talbott, an International Philanthropic Management Consultant of USA; Mr John Mupanga Mwanakatwe, a Member of the Judicial Complaints Committee of Zambia; Dr Hugh Nicholas Dawes, an Economic Professor from Jamaica and Mr Russell Theodore Cherneskey, Professional Accounting Consultant, Trust and Estate Practitioner from Canada.
Janet M. Evans, President of the American Biographical Institute said the forum serves as a platform for the melting of ideas and accomplishment for the betterment of all nations and societies. The IBC is an association of influential research institutes established worldwide to promote careers of thousands of professionals, whose contributions have been recognised nationally and internationally.
Dr Delle, 63-year-old Dermatologist and Chairman of the Convention People's Party, was born in 1943 at Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
He obtained a Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1970, from the University of Padua in Italy, and also studied at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine.
Dr Delle later returned to the University of Padua and read a course in Skin and Venereal Diseases, obtaining his specialist diploma with honours in 1972.