Professional Activities:

 Academic and Professional Qualifications with Dates:

1993	Fellow of Medical College of Paediatrics (FMCPaed.)
1985	Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS), Lagos
1980	Higher School Certificate
1977	West African School Certificate

Work Experience

• Hospital Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, OAUTHC, Ile-Ife: May 18, 1994 – July 31, 1995
• Visiting Locum Consultant Paediatrician, Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State: January 1994 – October 1995
• Postgraduate Training Programme in Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, OAUTHC, Ile-Ife, Nigeria:
• Senior Registrar and Chief Resident: May 1990 to May 1994.

As Chief Resident, I coordinated the (a) day-to-day running of the medical services of the Department of Paediatrics, OAUTHC (b) training of house officers in the department, and (c) postgraduate training programme of junior resident doctors. Furthermore, monthly morbidity/mortality meetings were regularly organized in addition to seminars and bedside teaching for medical students.

• Registrar: February 1989-May 1990
• Senior House Officer: March 1988-February 1989
• Medical Officer: Akos Clinic and Maternity, Oke-Arin, Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria (October 1987-February 1988)
• National Youth Service Corps: Medical Officer, Federal University of Technology Medical Centre, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria (September 1986-August 1987)
• Internship: Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Nigeria (September 1985-August 1986)

Work Experience at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

• Professor of Paediatric Nephrology and Hypertension: October 1, 2009
• Reader: October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009
• Senior Lecturer: October 1, 1998-September 30, 2005
• Lecturer I: August 1, 1995-September 30, 1998

Professional Accomplishments

• I pioneered the establishment of the Paediatric Nephrology and Hypertension Unit of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria as well as a weekly nephrology and hypertension clinic that has been running since 1994.
• I set up a fully-fledged Department of Paediatrics with an intensive care newborn unit,children emergency room, and a consultant paediatric out-patient clinic at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria as a visiting Locum Consultant Paediatrician between 1994 and 1995. The Department was successfully nurtured, to an acceptable standard, that it passed the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council’s Accreditation Test for training of pre-registration House Officers in Paediatrics in 1998.
• Daily pre- and post-chemotherapy dialysis aimed at preventing death from Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL)–associated tumour lysis syndrome (TLS) and nephropathy is the standard treatment of choice. In Nigeria, acute dialysis costs between N15, 000 and N25, 000/day. This is beyond the reach of most patients. Because of this, mortality from BL nephropathy is often100.0%. This problem necessitated an interventional study from our unit [Paper xxii]. By this study we were able to develop a mechanistic renal salvage therapeutic regimen that obviated the need for dialysis and also reduced TLS and BL nephropathy-associated mortality from 100.0% to 28.0%.

Current Research Activities

1. Pathologic basis for acute kidney injury of secondary origin in Nigerian children.
2. Treatment and characteristics of Burkitt’s lymphoma in Africa. An International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research [INCTR] (Lyon, France) – sponsored Burkitt’s lymphoma study project: INCTR Protocol 03-06-Site. This is a multispecialty international research project.
3. Discriminant baseline diagnostic indices between acute-on-chronickidney disease and acute kidney injury in children.
4. H3AFRICA kidney disease research network: to determine the role of APOL1, MYH9 and other risk variants and susceptibility to chronic kidney disease in sub-Sahara African children and adults. This is an international collaborative research project involving 10 African and 4 US institutions.