Prince Mahidol Award 2015 announced

BANGKOK, November 12 (TNA) - An American citizen, Dr. Morton Mower, and a British national, Sir Michael Gideon Marmot, have been selected to win Thailand's honourable Prince Mahidol Award 2015. Dr. Prasit Wattanapa, Dean of Siriraj Hospital's Faculty of Medicine, who is also Vice President of the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation (PMAF) under the Royal Patronage, together with Dr. Vicharn Panich, Chairman of the PMAF's International Award Committee, and Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sek Wannamethee, who is also Director General of the ministry's Department of Information, announced the winners of the 24th Prince Mahidol Award at a press conference held at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok on November 12. The winner of the Prince Mahidol Award 2015 for Medicine goes to Prof. Dr. Morton M. Mower from the United States, who was a co-inventor of the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (AICD) and the main inventor of the Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) device, both of which have been used by cardiac patients worldwide. The winner of the Prince Mahidol Award 2015 for Public Health, on the other hand, goes to Sir Gideon Marmot, a British systematic researcher on epidemiology over the past 35 years, who has advocated good and equal public health services among billions of people of all classes worldwide. His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej introduced the Prince Mahidol Award in 1992 on the auspicious occasion of the centennial birthday anniversary of His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla, the Prince Father, on January 1, 1992. The Prince Mahidol Award has been annually presented to selected international individuals and organisations with outstanding performances for humunity since then. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will present the Prince Mahidol Award 2015 to the winners at the Chakri Throne Hall in the Grand Palace in the Thai capital on January 28, 2016. (TNA)