Stacey B. Day

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Stacey B. Day was born in London, England, on 31 December 1927. He was an educator and a Physician. During his time at the Davenant Foundation Grammar School He was evacuated to Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, during World War II. He graduated in medicine and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland in 1955. He had a PhD in Experimental Surgery at McGill University in Canada, 1964.

[edit] List of Accomplishments

D.Sc in Surgical Science, University of Cincinnati, 1971.
Postgraduate studies in the Surgical Laboratory of Owen H. Wangensteen, University of Minnesota, 1955-1960.
Introduced the Division of Health Communications/Medical Education at the Sloane Kettering Institute for Cancer Research 1973.
Designed and proposed Cancer CIDACS and Consensus Organization in Health Care Systems Management (Biosciences Communications, Health Communications, Integrated Systems).
Founded Department of Biopsychosocial and Community Health in the University of Calabar 1983-1985.
Conferred with Chieftancy Titles, Ntufam Ajan of Oban 1983.
The second non-African to be conferred with Chieftancy title by Ejagham People of South East Nigeria.
In a "Plan For Renewal" for Meharry Medical College, Nashville, he was invited to establish with the W.H.O. (Geneva) a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. This commitment was established in 1987 - W.H.O. Community Based Education, Problem Based Learning, and Multiprofessional Education.
Honored by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on January 2, 1987, from White House, "The vision of Dr Stacey Day, and his fine team at the Center, builds on a community approach to medicine which is truly international in scope. The effort to bring outstanding medical care to other nations and to help them implement effective health service programs for their peoples is vitally important".
Decade 1990-2000 he served as Fulbright Professor, Charles University, Prague; Visiting Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Post Graduate Medical School, Prague, and as Permanent Visiting (Professor of Medical Education, Oita Medical University, Japan).

Civic Awards include:

Commendation from the King of Calabar (1984)
Key to the City of Nashville, USA, 1987;
WHO Medal 1987;
Tennessee Ambassador of Good Will 1987-1997.
Citation in Congressional Record, Proceedings of 100th Congress, First Session, Washington D.C., Tuesday, January 6th, 1987, Vol 133, by Hon. William Hill Boner of Tennessee in the House of Representatives.
Festschrift Letters, Library of Congress, "As They See You".