The man, Professor Emmanuel Akin Abayomi is a renowned doctor. However, He has become the more popular with the recent Covid-19 developments in Nigeria; especially with Lagos, being the epi-center in Nigeria at the moment. A man that seems calm headed and cool; apparently a man of few words and much actions, there is more to the man than meets the eye. This article serves to give a brief synopsis of this loaded man.
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Brief Profile and Interesting Facts on Prof. Akin Abayomi
- His full name is Akin Emmanuel Abayomi.
- He is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine.
- His qualifications include: MBBS (London), MRCP (UK), FCPath Haem (SA), MPhil (UP), FRCP(Edin) PhD Project: Stem cells in HIV disease.
- Prof Akin Abayomi is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Haematology, Oncology, Environmental Health and Biosecurity.
- Prof. Abayomi studied at the Royal Medical College of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital in the University of London where he attained his first graduate degree in Medicine and progressing to obtain fellowships from both Royal College of Medicine in the United Kingdom and the College of Medicine of South Africa.
- Prof Abayomi has worked in several countries around the world in Internal Medicine and has been exposed to a variety of geographical variations of disease patterns within the discipline of Internal Medicine.
- He has held positions such as: Head of Department of Haematopathology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Associate Professor of Haematology University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
- In his numerous years of experience, He has been exposed to a variety of geographical variations and disease patterns within the discipline of Internal Medicine and Haematology.
- His focus has mainly been on the complications of HIV and the development of laboratory and clinical capacity to rise to the challenge of the HIV epidemic in the Developing world and Africa.
- Prof. Abayomi also trained in ecosystem integrity, wilderness management and biosecurity and has a special interest in environmental health and passion for ecosystem integrity and the impact of environmental degradation on human health, practicing holistic organic agroforestry in combination with ecosystem conservation.
- Prof. Abayomi manages a 300 Acre organic bio habitat forest conservation project in his spare time in Osun State on the banks of Osun River.
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- Professor Abayomi’s focus has mainly been on the concept of emerging infectious diseases and the development of laboratory and clinical capacity in Africa.
- Professor Abayomi was a PI on the H3Africa Genomic project, Director of the Cape Haematology Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and adviser to the Royal College of Pathologists for Africa.
- He was the president of the South African Society of Haematology and serves on council of the International Society for Clinical Cytometry and the European, Middle East and Africa Bio-banking Society.
- Professor Abayomi until his appointment as the Commissioner for Health in Nigeria’s most populous city – Lagos was a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Emeritus in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town and Principal Investigator of the Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium or GET, which was established at the height of the Ebola Outbreak to address bio-security concerns in Africa.
- Before his appointment as Lagos state Commissioner of Health, Prof Akin Abayomi was working with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria.
Sources:
Nairaland
Nimed Health NG
H3Africa
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