Academy Fellows
AMSN members, elected based on their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service, serve without compensation in studies and other activities on matters of significance to health. Election to active membership is both an honor and a commitment to serve in Academy affairs.
After thorough deliberations and due diligence, The Academy has invited eminent and outstanding scholars who have made landmark contributions in Medicine and Health care as Foundation Fellows. They have been drawn from Country-wide and abroad.
The Academy of Medical Sciences believes that outstanding experts would be able to provide academic and professional leadership. In all the various health and medical challenges facing the country and enhance our health and welfare and contribute to the education and practice of medical science in the country.
These are world-renown scholars and accomplished medical practitioners of note within society spanning the various disciplines of medical specialties:
- Basic Medical Sciences
- Basic Clinical Sciences
- Clinical Sciences
- Dental Sciences
- Emeritus Fellows
| Full Name | Department | Section | Research Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Wuraola Shokunbi | Haematology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Haematological disorders |
| Prof. Olufemi Ogunbiyi | Morbid Anatomy | Basic Clinical Sciences | Genetic Epidemiology of Prostrate cancer |
| Prof. Oyinlola Oduyebo | Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Antimicrobial resistance and Stewardship |
| Prof. Olukayode Dada | Laboratory Medicine | Basic Clinical Sciences | Preventions of cancers of the reproductive systems and the evaluation of the safety and efficacy of medical interventions for the promotion of maternal and infant health |
| Prof. Godwin Bazuaye | Hematology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Stem cell transplant for sickle cell and other haematological malignancies |
| Prof. Adekunbiola Banjo | Morbid Anatomy | Basic Clinical Sciences | Cancers of the breast and cervix |
| Prof. Ayodele Soladoye | Physiology | Basic Medical Sciences | Cardiovascular reflexes |
| Prof. Abayomi Okanlawon | Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Spermatogenic process and environmental toxicants |
| Prof. Olorunseun Ogunwobi | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Basic Medical Sciences | Cancer Biology |
| Prof. Uchenna Nwagha | Physiology Obstetrics | Basic Medical Sciences | Micronutrients & Malaria in pregnancy |
| Prof. Aliyu Mohamed | Physiology | Basic Medical Sciences | Mechanism of ameliorative effects of some phytochemicals in the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus |
| Prof. Emmanuel Maduagwu | Biochemistry | Basic Medical Sciences | Molecular pathway mechanism unifying N-nitrosamine and cyanide |
| Prof. Patrick Igbigbi | Human Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Anthropology and digital biometrics |
| Prof. Blessing Idonije | Medical Biochemistry | Basic Medical Sciences | Biomarkers in obese individuals to find individuals with hypertension or diabetes mellitus |
| Prof. Nathaniel Salako | Pediatric Dentistry | Dental Sciences | Acid-base balance in the etiology of detal caries |
| Prof. Birch Saheeb | Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology | Dental Sciences | Oral and Maxillofacial surgery |
| Prof. Foluso Owotade | Oral Medicine | Dental Sciences | Interaction of Oral and Systemic health |
| Prof. Olayinka Otuyemi | Orthodontics | Dental Sciences | Relationship between oro-facial soft tissue patterns and maxillofacial morphology |
| Prof. Folake Oredugba | Paedodontics | Dental Sciences | Oral Health of children and adolescents with special needs |
| Prof. Gbemisola Oke | Community Dentistry | Dental Sciences | Dental Public Health Education |
| Prof. Mike Ojo | Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology | Dental Sciences | Mitotic Phase distribution in Oral Epithelial Hyperplasia and Neoplasia |
| Prof. Kalu Ogbureke | Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology | Dental Sciences | SIBLLING proteins in oral cancer and precancers |
| Prof. Onatolu Odukoya | Oral Biology | Dental Sciences | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology |
| Prof. Oluwole Dosumu | Prosthodontics | Dental Sciences | Patterns, trends and management of edentulism in relation to changes in oral diseases and rehabilitation |
| Prof. Modupeola Arowojolu | Periodontology | Dental Sciences | Effects of systemic diseases on the periodontium |
| Prof. Enosakhare Akpata | Dental Surgery | Dental Sciences | Therapeutic Management for Dental Fluorosis |
| Prof. Jelili Akinwande | Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Dental Sciences | Burkitt's Lymphoma of the jaw |
| Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo | Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Dental Sciences | Aetiology of cleft-lip palate |
| Prof. Adetokunbo Adebola | Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Dental Sciences | Addressing the inequality in oral health care by transforming oral health service from the clinic to the rural community |
| Prof. Sunday Olowo | Medical Microbiology | Clinical Sciences | Urogenital infectious diseases, AMR & Infection control |
| Prof. Elizabeth Disu | Paediatrics | Basic Medical Sciences | Paediatrics |
| Prof. Cecilia Igwilo | Pharmacy | Basic Medical Sciences | Anti-sickling medicinal plant extract-Niprisan |
| Prof. Blessing Jaja | Neuroscience & Clinical Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Application of big data for precision medicine |
| Prof. Abidemi Akindele | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Ethnomedicinal drug discovery and development |
| Prof. Akinlolu Ojo | Nephrology | Clinical Sciences | Understanding and treatment chronic kidney disease |
| Prof. Victor Lasebikan | Psychiatry | Clinical Sciences | Neuropsychiatry & addiction medicine |
| Prof. Titilola Samuel | Endocrinology | Basic Medical Sciences | Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| Prof. Oyindamola Abiodun | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Ethnopharmacology & chemotherapy with a special interest in plants and mushrooms as nutraceuticals |
| Prof. Olufunsho Awodele | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Ames assay as an adoptable tool for screening of environmental and therapeutic agents for mutagenic potentials |
| Prof. Olayinka Ogunleye | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Antimicrobial Utilization & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) |
| Prof. Linus Saalu | Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Infertility & herbalism |
| Prof. Joseph Fadare | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Drug utilization and pharmacoepidemiology |
| Prof. John Anetor | Pathology | Basic Medical Sciences | Investigating toxic states including chemical carcinogenesis, and amelioration with nutritional factors |
| Asst. Prof. Ismaila Ishola | Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Identification of novel neuroactive chemicals from natural products |
| Dr. Sonny Kuku | Medicine & Endocrinology | Basic Medical Sciences | Molecular heterogeneity of glycoprotein hormones and glucagon relating to their function in health and disease |
| Prof. Frank Giwa-Osagie | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Contraception, Infertility, role of prolactin in amenorrhoeic women and safe pregnacy |
| Prof. Oladapo Ashiru | Anatomy & Reproductive Endocrinology | Basic Medical Sciences | Identification and removal of endocrine disruptorss caused by environmental toxins |
| Prof. Oyewale Tomori | Public Health | Basic Medical Sciences | Virology |
| Emer. Prof. Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor | Peadiatric Heamatology | Clinical Sciences | Genetics |
| Prof. Allen Oyediran | Health Resources & Management | Basic Clinical Sciences | Epidermiology and Control of Schistosomiasis, Malaria and other communicable diseases |
| Prof. Babatunde Onadeko | Opthalmology | Clinical Sciences | Diseases of the pleura and obstructive airways diseases |
| Prof. Oyinade Olurin | Respiratory Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Primary Glaucoma |
| Prof. Frank Okoisor | Ophthalmology | Clinical Sciences | Dentistry |
| Prof. Gabriel Ogunmola | Restorative Dentistry | Dental Sciences | Identification of Ischemia in red blood cells and rehydration therapy with anti-oxidant cocktails |
| Prof. Adeyemi Mosadomi | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Precancerous Lesions of the Oral Cavity |
| Prof. Oladele Kale | Public Health | Basic Medical Sciences | Dracunculiasis and Poliomyelitis |
| Prof. Ayodele Desalu | Human Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Developmental Enzymology of rat kidney |
| Prof. Joel Akinosi | Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery | Dental Sciences | Oral Surgery |
| Prof. Oluwole Akande | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Basic Medical Sciences | Reproductive Health |
| Prof. Abiodun Akinwuntan | Neurological Physiotherapy | Clinical Sciences | Virtual-reality Technologies for Neurorehabilitation |
| Prof. Oliver Ezechi | Maternal, Reproductive & Child Health | Clinical Sciences | Sexual & Reproductive Health |
| Prof. Charles Eregie | Paediatrics | Clinical Sciences | Maternal and Child health |
| Prof. Francis Durosinmi-Etti | Radiation Oncology | Clinical Sciences | Radiotherapy |
| Prof. Simon Yiltok | Paediatrics | Clinical Sciences | Perforator flaps in reconstructive surgery & burn injuries |
| Prof. Musa Wakil | Pschiatry | Clinical Sciences | Mental health |
| Dr. Ibrahim Wada | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Anatomy |
| Prof. Benjamin Uzochukwu | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Health policy and systems |
| Prof. Ifeoma Ulasi | Nephrology | Clinical Sciences | Prevalence of APOL1-gene in CKD patients |
| Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran | Surgery | Clinical Sciences | Genetic Epidemiology in breast cancer |
| Prof. Olayiwola Shittu | Urologist | Clinical Sciences | Use of Mohan Valvotome, t treat posterior urethral valves |
| Prof. Mayowa Owolabi | Medical Sciences/Neuro Sciences | Clinical Sciences | Genetic and environmental determinants of stroke |
| Prof. Bruce Ovbiagele | Public Health Sciences/Neurology | Clinical Sciences | Neurology |
| Prof. Akinsanya Osibogun | Public Health | Clinical Sciences | Community Health |
| Prof. Basden Onwubere | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Diseases of the heart due to hypertension and its complications |
| Prof. Olayinka Omigbodun | Psychiatry | Clinical Sciences | Child and Youth Psychiatry |
| Prof. Akinyinka Omigbodun | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Discoveries on the mechanisms of trophoblastic invasion in the human uterus |
| Prof. Mercy Olumide | Dermatology | Clinical Sciences | Contact and Occupational Dermatology |
| Prof. Emiola Olapade-Olaopa | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Urology |
| Prof. Njideka Okubadejo | Neurology | Clinical Sciences | Parkinson's Disease |
| Prof. Friday Okonofua | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Reproductive health |
| Dr. Adebola Okoisor | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Female Health and pregnant womeny mortality |
| Prof. David Oke | Cardiology | Clinical Sciences | Endcardiograph |
| Prof. Ayodele Ojuawo | Peadiatrics | Clinical Sciences | Role of Immunology in Guts. |
| Prof. Adesola Ogunniyi | Neurology | Clinical Sciences | Epidemiology of demetia and Alzheimers |
| Prof. Adebola Ogunbiyi | Dermatology | Clinical Sciences | Environmet effects on the effects on changing pattern on diseases |
| Prof. Godwin Ogbole | Radiology | Clinical Sciences | Imporoving low-field MRI image quality |
| Prof. Shamsideen Ogun | Neurology | Clinical Sciences | Stroke & Neurophysiology |
| Prof. Anthonia Ogbera | Medicine & Endocrinology | Clinical Sciences | Relationship between Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus |
| Prof. Agbaji Oche | Nephrology | Clinical Sciences | Renal Diseases in relation to HIV/AIDS |
| Prof. Austine Obasohan | Paediatrics | Clinical Sciences | Peripheral Artery disease in hypertensive and diabetic patients |
| Prof. Donald Nzeh | Radiology | Clinical Sciences | Transfontanelle ultrasound scanning of the infant brain |
| Prof. Fidelis Njokanma | Peadiatrics | Clinical Sciences | Paediatrics |
| Prof. Ismaila Mungadi | Surgery | Clinical Sciences | Buccal Mucosa urethroplasty, Genitoplasty and Sex Reassignment surgery |
| Prof. Idris Mohammed | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Polysaccharide sero-group |
| Prof. Sadisu Maaji | Radiology | Clinical Sciences | Interventional radiology |
| Prof. Foluso Afolabi Lesi | Peadiatrics | Clinical Sciences | Neurology and Neuro-Developmental Paediatrics |
| Prof. Oladapo Ladipo | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Sexual reproductive health & fertility management |
| Prof. Solomon Kadiri | Nephrology | Clinical Sciences | Management of Chronic Kidney disease |
| Prof. Simeon Isezuo | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Cardiology |
| Prof. John Ikimalo | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Reproductive tract infection and menstrual health of Adolescents |
| Prof. Anthony Ikefuna | Paediatrics | Clinical Sciences | Oncology |
| Prof. Joseph Ikechebulu | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Operative Laporoscopy |
| Prof. John Idoko | Virology | Clinical Sciences | Viral diseases |
| Prof. Oye Gureje | Psychiatry | Clinical Sciences | Epidemiology of neuropsychiatric disorders |
| Prof. Olufemi Fasanmade | Endocrinology | Clinical Sciences | Genes contributing to Diabetes Mellitus in Africans |
| Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Reproductive health and Safe motherhood |
| Prof. Sunday Chinenye | Internal Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Diabetes management |
| Prof. Alani Akanmu | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | The aggressiveness of biological behaviour of malignancies in the setting HIV infection |
| Prof. Rufus Akinyemi | Neurology | Clinical Sciences | Related Vascular and degenerative brain disorders in geriatric patients |
| Prof. Oluwarotimi Akinola | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Modality of symptomatic Uterine Fibroids. |
| Prof. Martin Aghaji | Cardio-Thoracic Surgery | Clinical Sciences | Esophageal transplants |
| Prof. Bosede Afolabi | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical Sciences | Maternal Medicine and anaemia in pregnacy |
| Prof. Olufemi Adelowo | Rhuematology | Clinical Sciences | Rapid growth and description of common rheumatological disorders |
| Prof. Rasaaq Adebayo | Cardiology | Clinical Sciences | Interventional Cardiology |
| Prof. Olayinka Abosede | Primary Health Care | Clinical Sciences | Community Health |
| Prof. Lawan Abdu | Opthalmology | Clinical Sciences | Opthalmology |
| Prof. Aliyu Abdu | Medicine | Clinical Sciences | Chronic Kidney Disease epidemiology |
| Prof. Musa Abba | Psychiatry | Clinical Sciences | Psychiatry and Mental Health |
| Prof. Abdullahi Abba | Medicine & Pulmonology | Clinical Sciences | Medical Education |
| Prof. Olukemi Odukoya | Pharmacognosy | Basic Clinical Sciences | Herbal Therapeutics |
| Prof. Fola Tayo | Phamacology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Public Health |
| Prof. Sammy Sam-Wobo | Parasitology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Helminthiasis & Malaria |
| Prof. Sani Shehu | Pathology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Management of breast and gyneacological diseases |
| Prof. Modupeola Samaila | Pathology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Pathology |
| Prof. Obinna Onwujekwe | Pharmaco-economics & Pharmaco-epidemiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Control of communicable and non-communicable diseases |
| Prof. Adebola Olayinka | Medical Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Infectious Hazards management and epidemic response |
| Dr. Rita Oladele | Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Invasive Fungal Infection |
| Prof. Mathias Okoye | Forensic Medicine | Basic Clinical Sciences | Alzheimer's Disease |
| Prof. Folasade Ogunsola | Medical Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Healthcare associated infections & Antimicrobial resistance |
| Prof. Adeyinka Falusi | Haematology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Gene deletion as a determinant of Alpha Thalassaemia |
| Prof. Catherine Falade | Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Basic Clinical Sciences | Diagnostics and treatment of Malaria and influence of treatment guidelines |
| Prof. Tola Atinmo | Nutrition | Basic Clinical Sciences | Human nutrition |
| Prof. Joseph Ahaneku | Chemical Pathology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Local modification of assay procedure for cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol quantification in blacks |
| Prof. Dennis Agbonlahor | Medical Laboratory Science | Basic Clinical Sciences | Infectious diseases (Diarrheagenic agents) |
| Prof. Adejuwon Adeneye | Pharmacology, Therapeutics & Toxicology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Therapeutic monitoring & management of Diabetes Mellitus |
| Prof. Boaz Adegboro | Medical Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | Laboratory Medicine and Medical education |
| Prof. Aaron Aboderin | Medical Microbiology | Basic Clinical Sciences | AMR & Antimicrobial stewardship |
| Prof. Oshiozokhai Yama | Human Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Non-steriodal contraceptives |
| Prof. Stella Smith | Biology & Biotechnology | Basic Medical Sciences | Molecular epidemiology and AMR of infectious disease pathogen |
| Prof. Ali Shugaba | Human Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Clinical and Microscopic Anatomy |
| Prof. Abraham Osinubi | Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Reproductive endocrinology |
| Prof. Ademola Oremosu | Anatomy | Basic Medical Sciences | Alcohol induced sperm DNA fragmentation and ameliorative effects of ethnobotanical extracts |
| Prof. Christian Happi | Molecular Genetics | Basic Medical Sciences | Pathogens and translational geneomics |
| Prof. Hakeem Fawehinmi | Biomedical Anthropology | Basic Medical Sciences | Medical Anthropology |
| Prof. Ebenezer Farombi | Biochemistry | Basic Medical Sciences | Molecular mechanism of action in chemopreventive role of certain phytochemicals and nutraceuticals |
| Prof. Osaretin Ebuehi | Biochemistry | Basic Medical Sciences | Characterization, purification, development and metabolism of brain specific proteins |
| Prof. Herbert Coker | Pharmacy | Basic Medical Sciences | Epidemiological studies directed at the drastic reduction of tobacco-related cancers |
| Prof. Sunday Atawodi | Biochemistry | Basic Medical Sciences | Epidemiological studies directed at the drastic reduction of tobacco-related cancers |
| Prof. Abdul-Rasak Alada | Physiology | Basic Medical Sciences | GI tract as a glucose modulatory organ |
| Prof. Peter Akah | Phamarcology | Basic Medical Sciences | Vernonia amygdalina and its benefits in the management of Type-2 diabetes mellitus |
| Prof. Olusegun Ademowo | Biochemistry & Pharmacology | Basic Medical Sciences | Malaria epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostics, drug discovery and drug disposition kinetics of antimalarial drugs |
| Prof. Olufeyi Adegoke | Physiology | Basic Medical Sciences | Endocrine Physiology |