The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 582nd Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Victor I. Akinmoladun of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).

TITLE:  THE SCALPEL AND THE LABORATORY: COLLABORATION AGAINST THE LAWLESS

DATE:  THURSDAY, 5TH JUNE, 2025

TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa

VENUE:  TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

TO BE DELIVERED BY:  PROFESSOR VICTOR I. AKINMOLADUN

Thank you

Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost

PROFESSOR VICTOR I. AKINMOLADUN BIODATA

Professor Victor I. Akinmoladun was born to Dr. Olufemi and Mrs Adefolurin Akinmoladun in Ondo, Ondo state. Both parents were teachers before proceeding to the United States for further education in the late 60s. He spent his earlier years with his grandparents who were farmers in his home town of Ondo, while his parents were studying abroad.  He had his primary education at the little known C.A.C Primary School, Oke-Igbala, Ondo and his secondary education at the Saint Thomas Aquinas College, Akure (1977 to 1982). He was admitted to the Obafemi Awolowo University to study Dentistry in 1983 and obtained the BCh.D degree in 1989. He had his housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City. His National Youth Corp Service took place at the General Hospital, Ikeja Lagos.

He worked briefly with the Lagos State Hospitals’ Management Board before proceeding to the United Kingdom for specialist training. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDSRCS) as well and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FFDRCS). Professor Akinmoladun is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and a one-term member of the Board, Faculty of Dental Surgery of the College.

Upon his return to Nigeria after his sojourn in the United Kingdom, he joined the Ondo State Hospitals’ Management Board as a Consultant, at the then State Specialist Hospital, Akure, before he secured an appointment with the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He was promoted Senior Lecturer in 2008.  He obtained the Master of Science (M.Sc) degree, in Chemical Pathology from the University of Ibadan in 2008. He also acquired a Certificate in Immunology and Molecular Laboratory Techniques from the Makere University, Kampala, Uganda in 2012.  He obtained the Ph.D (Basic Science-Immunology) of the University of Ibadan in the year 2021. He teaches tumour Immunology to the M.Sc students of the department of Immunology, University of Ibadan.

Professor Akinmoladun was promoted to the rank of a Professor by the University of Ibadan in 2019. He has co-authored over 80 articles in local and international journals and two book chapters. He was a recipient of the University of Ibadan Senate Research Grant in 2012 and was also awarded the TETfund Research and Training Grant in 2014. He is a recipient of several Smile Train (USA) Travel Fellowship grants to participate in Cleft Lip and Palate workshops, trainings and conferences.

He has served the University in various capacities; Professor Akinmoladun was a Sub-Dean (Postgraduate), in the Faculty of Dentistry, and he is currently the head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He was a Regional Coordinator (South west), Continuing Medical Education, of the Nigerian Medical Association. He is a reviewer to several local and international journals and an examiner to Dental schools in Nigeria and the West African College of surgeons.

He was the Deputy Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee (2015-2016) and then Chairman, (Director of Clinical Services, Research and Training (2016-2020) at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He has attended several administrative management and leadership courses and holds the Policy, Strategy and Leadership Course (PSLC) certificate of the National Institute, Kuru, near Jos.  Apart from service to the University and the University College Hospital, he is a Pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God and a member of the Board of Management of the Redemmer’s Health Centre, Ibadan. He is a member of several learned societies including the Nigerian Association of Cleft Lip and Palate, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons, African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTC), and the Nigerian Society for Immunology amongst others. Professor Akinmoladun was Secretary, International Association for Dental Research (Nigerian Division) and the Nigerian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is married to Dr. Janet A. Akinmoladun of the department of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.

Professor Olusegun Olusina Akinyinka…once upon a Provost

The Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI) Prof. T. O. Ogundiran, FAS on behalf of the Management, Staff and Students of CoMUI felicitates and salutes Prof. Olusegun Olusina Akinyinka, the 9th Provost, CoMUI, as he retires from the services of the University of Ibadan on February 7,2025.

Professor Olusegun Olusina Akinyinka, mni MB;BS (Ibadan), Ph.D. (Southampton, UK), FMCPaed (Nigeria), FRCPCH (UK), MD, was born at the Kano General Hospital in Kano, on the 7th of February, 1955.

He started primary school education in Chafe (now Tsafe), Zamfara State and completed it in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He proceeded to the Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro, Ogun State for his Secondary Education between 1966 and 1972.

In 1973, he gained admission to the University of Ibadan where he graduated with MB;BS Degree in 1978. He obtained Fellowship of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in Paediatrics (FMCPaed) in 1987 and had subspecialty training in paediatric gastroenterology at the King’s College Hospital, London. Driven by his desire for academics, he obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Pharmacology at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom in 1996. He was conferred with the Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH) in 2007 and also awarded an MD Degree by the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in 2021. He was at the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru where he was awarded with the membership of the National Institute (mni) in 2014.

As a Resident doctor

Professor Akinyinka joined the service of University of Ibadan as a Lecturer I in 1988 and rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Paediatrics in 2000. He served as Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the University College Hospital, Ibadan between 1988 till today. He served as the Ag. Head, Department of Paediatrics between 1997 and 1998, Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Ibadan between 2004 and 2006. He was elected unopposed as the 9th Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in 2010 and served till 2014. 

As a transformative leader in medical education, Professor Akinyinka pioneered innovations that continue to shape the field. In 2011, he secured the approval of the Senate of the University of Ibadan to establish the first College of Medicine Education Unit (CMEU) and Clinical Skills Laboratory.

In 2016, Prof. Akinyinka was appointed as the Pioneer Provost of the College of Medical Sciences, Edo University, Iyamho, Edo State, Nigeria.

Professor O.O.Akinyinka is happily married to Mrs Valentina Olubisi Akinyinka and the union is blessed with three children and lovely grandchildren.

On behalf of the College Community, Professor T. O. Ogundiran wishes Prof. O.O. Akinyinka the very best that life has to offer as he begins his retirement. The CoMUI Management team, Staff and Student bid him well and deeply appreciate him for his dedicated service  to the College and the University of Ibadan since 1988.

The CoMUI Community is hereby invited to his Valedictory Lecture advertised as follows.

With members of the Department of Paediatrics at a wedding party

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor K.O. Adebowale, FAS, mni, cordially invites you to the 581st Inaugural Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Kayode O. Osungbade of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan (CoMUI).

TITLE:  ART AND SCIENCE OF MOLECULES OF HEALTH PRODUCTION: THE EXPLOITS OF A PRODUCER

DATE:  THURSDAY, 22ND MAY, 2025

TIME: 3:00 P.M. West Central Africa

VENUE:  TRENCHARD HALL, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

TO BE DELIVERED BY:  PROFESSOR KAYODE O. OSUNGBADE

Thank you

Prof. Temidayo Ogundiran FAS
Provost

PROFESSOR KAYODE O. OSUNGBADE BIODATA

Professor Kayode Omoniyi OSUNGBADE was born on Saturday, 8^th June, 1963 to the family of Mr. Francis Bamidele and Mrs. Marian Oladejo OSUNGBADE, both of blessed memory. He attended the Ibadan City Council (ICC) Primary School, Molete, Ibadan, from 1970 to 1975 and Methodist High School, Ibadan for his secondary education from 1975 to 1980. He enrolled in the Higher School Certificate (HSC) programme at the Government College, Ibadan, from 1980 to 1981 and was the best student of the year in physics and chemistry.

Professor Osungbade gained admission into the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in 1981 and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1987. He undertook his one-year housemanship with the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board and rotated through the Adeoyo Specialist Hospital, Ring Road Specialist Hospital, and Oni Memorial Children's Hospital – all in Ibadan from 1987 to 1988. He observed the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps Programme at Okigwe Local Government, old Imo State, from 1988 to 1989. He returned to Ibadan in 1989 and worked as a Medical Officer II with the Oyo State Hospitals Management Board until 1991, when Osun State was created.

 When the then military governor of Oyo State - the Late Colonel Abdulkareem Adisa gave  Osun State indigenes the marching order, like other Osun State indigenes, Prof Osungbade moved his service to Osun State in October 1991. However, he resigned his appointment from the Osun State Hospitals Management Board in February 1992 to commence his residency training in community health at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife on the 1^st March, 1992. He crossed over to the Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan on the 1^st September, 1992 to continue his residency training, which he completed in May 1997. He is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (Public Health and Community Medicine) and the West African College of Physicians (Community Health). He holds an MSc. (Bioethics), an MPhil (Public Health), and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and a PhD(Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University,2024). He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine (FNAMed).

He joined the service of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan in November 1998 as a Lecturer Grade I and was promoted to the Senior Lecturer Grade in 2002. He was appointed an Honorary Consultant Public Health Physician to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2004. He was appointed the first Professor of Health Policy and Management at the university on 1^st October, 2014. As a senior resident in community health, he served as the acting Coordinator of Studies, Ibarapa Programme from 1995 to 1998 and as the substantive Coordinator of Studies, Ibarapa Programme from 1999 till 2008.

Professor Osungbade was appointed Acting Head of the Department of Community Medicine from 1^st August, 2008 to 31^st July, 2010. Following the retirement of the first head of the Health Policy and Management, he took over the mantle of leadership of the new department of Health Policy and Management from 1^st October, 2010 to 31^st July, 2020; thus serving either as an acting or substantive Head of Department for 12 unbroken years. As a result of the ‘Japa Syndrome’ that hit his department, he has accepted to serve again as the head of the department from 1^st August, 2024 to 31^st July, 2026.

Professor Osungbade won a one-year World Health Organisation (WHO) Fellowship on Management of Public Health Trainings in 2003; the fellowship was based at the WHO Centre for Vulnerability Reduction, Tunis, Tunisia. During the period of the fellowship, he participated in the development of several training packages for WHO programme officers and conducted and managed international trainings and workshops for WHO programme officers in African countries. He was subsequently given a 6-month temporary appointment as the Training Officer of the Centre, after which he returned to Nigeria in July 2005. He was on the team that packaged and reviewed the 2005 World Health Report of the WHO.

Professor Osungbade teaches health policy and management, primary health care, health care financing and economics, communicable (Tropical) disease control, and medical and health research ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised 150 Masters degree students; supervised/co-supervised 4 PhD students and 10 fellowship dissertations of both the National Postgraduate Medical College and West African College of Physicians in the specialty of community health, public health and community medicine. He has served as an external examiner at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in many Nigerian universities, including University of Lagos; Lagos State University; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; University of Calabar, Calabar; Igbinedon University, Benin; and Bowen University, Iwo. He has served as an observer for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) at the final professional MBBS examinations in Community Medicine in Edo University, Uzairue and Peter and Mary Odili University of Medical Sciences (PAMO), Port Harcourt. He has served as on the accreditation teams of some academic and professional regulatory bodies - Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and West African College of Physicians (WACP) - to the following universities and teaching hospitals: Igbinedon University, Benin; Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma; Irua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irua; University of Ilorin, Ilorin; University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin; Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti; University of Lagos Teaching Hospital, Lagos; Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki; and Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos. He has been previously appointed as an external assessor for professorial candidates in the University of Lagos, Lagos; Gombe State University, Gombe; University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus; University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt; University of Uyo, Uyo; and Makerere University, Uganda. He is currently an examiner to the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and West African College of Physicians (WACP) at the membership and fellowship levels.

Professor Osungbade is a scientific and ethical reviewer for local and international journals; he is currently the Chairman of the Eleta Eye Institute Health Research Ethics Committee. He has served on several national and international expert committees on communicable and non-communicable diseases, namely HIV, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and poliomyelitis. Professor Osungbade has participated and facilitated in many local, national and international workshops, including Communication, Mobilisation and Behavioural Initiative (COMBI) training at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya in 2004, Teacher-Student Exchange Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2007, Health Systems Workshop in Kupio, Finland in 2009 and CARTA-sponsored PhD Supervisors trainings in Malawi and South Africa in 2018 and 2020, respectively to mention a few.

He has worked with many research collaborators and groups on several research grants from international partners, notably the World AIDS Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland, Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland, UNIFEM New York, Malaria Consortium, and Ford Foundation/Nigeria Academy of Science. He has published extensively in local and international peer review journals and has over 70 publications to his credit.

He is a member of a number of academic and professional bodies, notably the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria (APHPN) and Nigeria Medical Association (NMA). Within University of Ibadan, he has served on a number of committees at the departmental, faculty and university levels at various times. He is currently the Faculty of Public Health representative on the Central Appointments and Promotions Committee. Professor Kayode Omoniyi Osungbade is happily married to Mrs. Damilola Jumoke Osungbade and the union is blessed with three children – Oluwatomide, Ayomide and TiwaladeOluwa.

Professor Aderonke Omobonike Akinpelu (nee Mosadomi) was born on the 21st of December, 1954 in Osogbo, to the family of late Mr Adediran Mosadomi and Chief Mrs Mogbolajo Mosadomi of Ile Olobado, Osogbo, Osun State. Her earliest education was in five different primary schools as she had to change schools each time her sister was transferred. She had her secondary education in St. Anne’s School, Molete, Ibadan between 1968 and 1972; and higher school education (A Levels) in Ibadan Grammar School between 1973 and 1974.

Prof. Aderonke Akinpelu studied physiotherapy at the University of Ibadan between 1974 and 1977, obtaining a B.Sc. degree in physiotherapy (Second Class Upper Division). She started her academic career as a Graduate Assistant in September 1978, after completing the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corp. She studied Exercise Physiology at the postgraduate level in the Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan on a part-time basis and obtained her PhD in September 1990.

She was awarded Part A and B certificates in the McKenzie mechanical diagnosis and therapy by the McKenzie Institute International in June 1997. She became a regular staff of the University of Ibadan on 1st October 1984, when she was appointed a Lecturer Grade II in the College of Medicine. She gradually rose through the ranks and became a full Professor in 2011. Between February 1995 and June 1997, she worked as an Assistant Professor in King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, where she improved her clinical skills in Paediatric Physiotherapy. In 2005, she was appointed as an honorary consultant by the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Prof Akinpelu has contributed a lot to physiotherapy education in Nigeria. She was Head of Department three times (Aug 1998-July 2000, Aug 2003-July 2005 and May 2012-July 2014). She was a three-time chairperson of Physiotherapy Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee (1990-1991; 2011-2014; 2019-till date). One of these teams reviewed the 4-year B.Sc. Physiotherapy curriculum to a 5-year B. Physiotherapy curriculum (1990-1991) and has just concluded the revision of the 5-year B. Physiotherapy curriculum to a 6-year Doctor of Physiotherapy curriculum.

She has supervised over 50(fifty) undergraduate and more than 30(thirty) MSc, 2 MPhil and 8 PhD research projects in University of Ibadan. In addition, she co-supervised a PhD research project in University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof. Akinpelu has served as external examiner to several universities in Nigeria both for the undergraduate and postgraduate examinations. She has also served as external examiner to universities in Ghana for undergraduate studies and Canada for a doctoral examination. It is heart-warming and worthy of note that four of her proteges have also become Professors of Physiotherapy including Prof. Daniel Olufemi Odebiyi (current Deputy Provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos), Prof. Bosede Abidemi Tella (former Head, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Lagos), Prof. Adesola Christiana Odole (current Head, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Ibadan) and Prof. Fatai Maruf (former Head, Department of Medical Rehabilitation, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi). In the 46 years of her work at the University of Ibadan, she has made major contributions to physiotherapy training and practice in Nigeria.

Prof Akinpelu’s research effort is in three major areas, health outcomes assessment and quality of life (QoL), musculoskeletal health and exercise physiology. In collaboration with other researchers, she successfully developed two Nigerian culture-centric and environment-friendly standardised outcome measures, the Ibadan Knee/Hip Osteoarthritis Measure (IKHOAM) and the Ibadan Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (ILBPDQ). The IKHOAM is the first standardised outcome measure that was contributed by any group of researchers from Nigeria to English medical literature and it has been linguistically validated into Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. She generated data on quality of life of Nigerian stroke survivors and linguistically validated WHOQoL-Bref into Yoruba. She has cross-culturally adapted and validated many pain-rating, QoL and disability scales into Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. She generated an equation to facilitate isotonic muscle strength measurement. She developed the Nigerian Back School, provided community-based data on pattern and prevalence of knee osteoarthritis and on developmental pattern and reference values of tibio-femoral angle in Nigerian children and adolescents. She provided evidence that exercise training is effective as adjunct therapy in blood pressure control in patients with hypertension. She generated age-reference values of body mass index and physical fitness for Nigerian young adults.

She won several research grants including the Welcome Trust Fund for her doctoral research project in 1989; University of Ibadan, Senate Grant (twice) and International Association for the Study of Pain -Developing Countries Pain Education Grant. She has over 105 peer-reviewed articles in journals from all over the world, 3 chapters in books and several conference paper presentations. Prof. Akinpelu is best described as someone who translates her research work to clinical practice, a unique feature which stands her out as a translational practitioner, physiotherapist and Professor. She hits the mat when the need arises, joins the fitness class when such is required and demonstrates procedures during practical sessions to ensure that knowledge is not only communicated but that understanding is also acquired.

Prof Akinpelu is member of the International Association for the Study of Pain and an active member of the Society for the Study of Pain, Nigeria, (SSPN).She was SSPN Treasurer (2005-2009), Vice President (2013-2019) and President (2019-2023).

Prof. Akinpelu is married to Mr. Olakunle Akinpelu and she is a mother to Gbemisola, Busola Oyindamola and Feyisola. She is a grandmother. As a children’s teacher in her local assembly at All Saints Church, Jericho, Ibadan, she has been a mother to a hoard of other young people.