Hehehe...i love this man abeg.......Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, outgoing vice chancellor of
the University of Ibadan has been sworn in today (Wednesday) as
Nigeria’s health minister.
Prof. Adewole is
the 11th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan since it attained
the status of an Independent University Institution in 1962, having
hitherto been a College of the University of London from 1948 – 1962.
Prior to his appointment as Vice Chancellor, Adewole was a member of
Council and the Head, Department of Obsterics and Gynaecology at the
College of Medicine. He succeeded Professor Olufemi Bamiro, FNSE, FAS
whose tenure as Vice-Chancellor expired on Tuesday, 30 November, 2010.
A Professor at the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan,
Nigeria since 1997, Isaac Adewole is a Consultant Obsterician and
Gynaecologist at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan. He is
also an adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago, IIlinois,
USA.
Born
on 05 May, 1954, Prof. Adewole attended Ilesa Grammar School from 1966 –
1972 where he obtained Grade I with distinction in 1970 and the Higher
School Certificate in 1972 in the same school where he made AAC in the
three Science subjects he offered. He enrolled as a National Award
Scholar at the University of Ibadan in 1973 and obtained his MB BS
degree from the University of Ibadan in 1978 with the Glaxo Allenbury
prize for the best performance in Paediatrics. He joined the services of
the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a Senior House Officer
in 1981 and underwent further medical training to become a Senior
Registrar in the Deaprtment in 1984. He then travelled to the UK for a
Research Fellowship in the Department of Medical Oncology at Charring
Cross Hospital in London. Professor Adewole was appointed Lecturer I at
the College of Medicine in the University of Ibadan in 1989. He was
prompted Senior Lecturer in 1995 and Professor in 1997. He was Dean of
the Faculty of Clinical Sciences and Dentistry (2000 – 2002), before
becoming a Provost of the College of Medicine from 2002 to 2006.
Professor Adewole is Director of the Prevention of Mother to Child
Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV Project at UCH, Chairman of the PMTCT
National Task Team Subcommittee on anti-retrovirals for the PMTCT of HIV
and the country’s Principal Investigator for ‘Operation Stop Cervical
Cancer’ in Nigeria. Secretary-General of the Confederation of African
Medical Associations and Societies (CAMAS) from 1997-2003, Professor
Adewole holds memberships of many learned societies, including the
Nigerian Medical Association, the Society of Gynaecology &
Obstetrics of Nigeria, the European Research Organisation on Genital
Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN), and the International Network on
Control of Gynaecological Cancers.
A leading
advocate for nationwide access to cervical cancer screening, Professor
Adewole is also involved with advocacy work designed to reduce the
burden of unsafe abortions in Nigeria and is the Co-ordinator of the
Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy. His current research interests
include evaluating novel ideas for promoting cervical cancer screening
in developing countries, a multi-country study on HPV in cervical cancer
among African women and evaluating attitudes of HIV positive pregnant
women to contraception and couple counselling. He has published numerous
articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on gynaecological
oncology, abortion, HIV/AIDS and perinatal medicine.
He has delivered many guest lectures, numerous communications at
scientific conferences, abstracts and poster presentations and has
published over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on
gynaecological oncology, abortion, HIV/AIDS and perinatal medicine. A
widely travelled man, he has attended over 100 scientific conferences
and workshops. He is the Guttmatcher Institute’s 2008 Bixby Leadership
Fellow in Reproductive Health, President Elect of African Organization
for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) and the current Chair of
the sub-saharan African Cervical Cancer Working Group (CCWG). He is a
Patron of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria and he chaired the National Task
Team on prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.
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