Faine, Solomon (Solly) (1926 - 2021)

Summary

Solly Faine was a microbiologist renowned for his pioneering research on the bacterial genus Leptospira, and the pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology and control of potentially fatal disease leptospirosis. This disease of animals can spread to humans through contact with infected animal urine. Faine participated in a number of WHO committees on zoonotic diseases over an extended period, including over 30 years an a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Zoonomes. Other research interests included sterilisation and hospital infection. Faine was Professor of Microbiology at Monash University from 1968 to 1991. For much of that time he was Head of the Department, and largely responsible for its high standards of research and teaching. Faine was President of the Australian Society of Microbiology from 1969 to 1970. His contributions to microbiology internationally included Membership of the Executive Board of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, and of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology and its Taxonomic Committee on Leptospira.

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Chronology

? - 1996

Career position - Member, International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology

1946

Education - BMedSc, University of Otago, New Zealand

1949

Education - MB, ChB, University of Otago, New Zealand

1950 - 1952

Career position - Assistant Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Otago, New Zealand

1953 - 1955

Career position - Demonstrator, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

1955

Education - DPhil, University of Oxford

1956 - 1958

Career position - Lecturer in Bacteriology and Microbiology, University of Otago, New Zealand

1958

Education - MD, University of New Zealand

1959

Life event - Settled in Australia

1959 - 1963

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Sydney

1963 - 1968

Career position - Associate Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Sydney

1968 - 1989

Career position - Head, Department of Microbiology, Monash University

1968 - 1991

Career position - Professor of Microbiology, Monash University

1968 - 1991

Career position - Consultant Microbiologist, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

1969 - 1970

Career position - President, Australian Society of Microbiology

1969 - 2002

Career position - Consultant, WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Zoonomes

1972

Career position - French-Australian exchange Scientist, Pasteur Institute, France

1973 - 1982

Career position - Member, Taxonomic Committee on Leptospira, International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology

1974 - 1977

Career position - Chief Examiner in Microbiology and Member, Board of Censors, Royal College of Pathologists of Australia

1974 - 1978

Career position - Vice-Chairman, Bacteriology Division, International Union of Microbiological Societies

1974 - 1991

Career position - Consultant Microbiologist, Caulfield General Medical Centre, Melbourne

1978 - 1982

Career position - Chairman, Bacteriology Division, International Union of Microbiological Societies

1979 - 1992

Award - Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

1990 - 1999

Career position - Consultant Microbiologist, Maroondah Hospital, Melbourne

1990 - 2011

Award - Honorary Life Member, Australian Society for Microbiology

1990 - 2021

Award - Honorary Life Member, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

1992 -

Career position - Emeritus Professor, Monash University

1992 - 2005

Career position - Principal, MediSci Consulting and Writing

1992 - 2021

Award - Emeritus Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology

2000

Award - Marco Longo Lecturer, Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom

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• Robson, Alexandra K.; Production Manager and Editor eds, Who's who in Australia 2019 (Southbank, Vic.: AAP Directories, 2018), 1788 pp. Details