President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Prof. Olusegun Sylvester Ojo as the pioneer Chief Medical Director of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Akure, Ondo State.
The teaching hospital will serve as a training hub for students of medicine at the Federal University of Technology, Akure.
A seasoned medical professional, Prof. Ojo previously served as the pioneer CMD of the Ondo State Specialist Hospital.
Profile of Professor Olusegun OJO
Olusegun OJO is a Professor of Pathology at the Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences, Ile Ife and a Consultant Pathologist to the sister Teaching Hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH).
He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos in 1983 and undertook a Postgraduate Residency Training in Pathology, achieving the Fellowship of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in 1989. He obtained the (Doctor of Medicine) MD degree in 2021.
Since 1990, Professor Ojo has maintained a research and clinical interest in the Gastroenterology study of the diseases of the liver and the digestive tract and had been instrumental in establishing a network of researchers in this field in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. He had been President of the Society for the Gastroenterology in Nigeria (SOGHIN) and the Africa Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE), an affiliate of the World Gastroenterology Organisation.
Professor Ojo is extensively published in Gastroenterology international journals and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Tropical Pathology, the premier Journal of Pathology in Africa. He authored “Essential Pathology for Clinical Students in the Tropics,” a standard undergraduate pathology text.
He is currently the Chairman of the Faculty of Pathology of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA appointed Professor Olusegun Ojo as Provost of its College of Health Sciences on 1st August 2024.
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