Dr. Stephen King is a pathologist. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and an International Fellow of the College of Pathologists of the USA. He was educated at St. Mary’s College 1969-1974. He continued at the A level College (now SALCC) and was awarded the island scholarship in 1976. He pursued a degree in Medicine at UWI. He graduated in 1982 with honors in Physiology, Medicine and Therapeutics. He worked as a District Medical Officer in Soufriere from 1983-1985. He then pursued his postgraduate studies in pathology at the University of Toronto 1985-1989. He returned to Saint Lucia in 1989 as the Consultant Pathologist at Victoria Hospital where he established the Ezra Long Laboratory which he directed until 2004. He was the Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health from 2004-2007. He founded Laboratory Services and Consultations Limited in 1993. Laboratory Services continues to expand the range of medical laboratory services to the general population and promotes laboratory technology and access to high quality laboratory information. He was one of the co-founders of Tapion Hospital. He was the chairman of the Health Sector Reform Committee and one of the architects of the Saint Lucia Health Sector Reform Proposals 2000, the Universal Health Care Proposal of 2003, and the National Strategic Plan for Health 2006. He was one of the co-founders and the first chairman of the AIDS Action Foundation and one of the co-founders of RISE (St.Lucia) Inc. He has advocated for healthy human development, youth empowerment and reduction in violence. He promotes and actively uses the “cure violence” approach to reducing violence. He was an appointed Independent Senator in Saint Lucia 2011-2016. He was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 for his contribution to Medicine and the Saint Lucia Cross in 2018 for his contribution to Society.
