Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun | |
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| File:Omigbodun.jpg Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun, FAS | |
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| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Citizenship | Nigeria |
| Alma mater | University of Ibadan |
| Occupation(s) | Obstetrician Gynecologist Academics Educational administrator |
| Years active | 1980 - present |
| Known for | Gynecology Obstetrics Gynecologic oncology |
Akinyinka Omigbodun (born November 10, 1956) is a Nigerian professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He is the Incumbent President of the West African College of Surgeons and former Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, the largest and oldest Medical school in Nigeria.[1][2]
His research interest is in the area of molecular mechanisms of placentation and Gynecologic oncology, a specialized field of medicine that focuses on cancers of the female reproductive system, including ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, vaginal cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer.[3][4]
He currently chairs the management board of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA). He is a member of the governing council, Osun State University. He was appointed as member of the council in 2012 by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the executive governor of Osun State.[5] He was a keynote speaker at a media roundatable held in Lagos, where he also presented his report on the Needs Assessment Survey for Ekiti and Nasarawa State. The survey aimed to assist in developing action plans to address social development and reproductive health issues of Nigerian youths.[6]
Professor Omigbodun was born in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. He obtained a bachelor's degree (M.B.B.S) in medicine with distinction from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in June 1980. Following the completion of the compulsory one year Youth service in Nigeria, he began his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1982. Having completed the training in 1987, he became a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons.[7]
In 1988, Professor Omigbodun became a fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and in 1990, he left Nigeria to University Hospital of South Manchester where he also trained as Gynaecological Oncologist for one year. In 1992, he was elected Chairman of the Oyo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, a position he held till 1993, the same year he was appointed as visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA where he spent four years.
On October 1997, he was appointed as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Ibadan and in 2002, he became the Chief Coordinator of Courses at the West African College of Surgeons..[8] In 2003, he was appointed as chairman of the editorial board of Dokita Journal, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. On August 2006, he was appointed as Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He served in that capacity for four years until the end of his tenure in July 2010, the same year was appointed as the Chairman of the management board of Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, a position he held till date.[9]
In 2012, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, the apex academic organization in Nigeria. He was inducted into the academy, alongside with Professor Mojeed Olayide Abass, a Nigerian Professor of Computer science at the University of Lagos and Professor Isaac F. Adewole, the incumbent Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan.[10]
Professor Omigbodun had received numerous awards and prizes for outstanding contributions to medicine and academics. He is a receiver of the Audrey Meyer Mars Clinical Oncology Fellowship as well as the Fellowship of the American Cancer Society. On November 1996, he bags the American Society for Reproductive Medicine prize for outstanding contributions to science for the best poster presentation at the 52nd annual conference held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.[11]