Prof. Samuel I. OMOKHODION

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Name: Prof. Samuel I. OMOKHODION

Faculty: CLINICAL SCIENCES

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 Department:Paediatrics

Designation: Professor

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POSITION/TITLE

ACADEMIC & CLINICAL HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS/PROFESSOR

Samuel Ilenre OMOKHODION

EDUCATION/TRAINING                               

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

MM/YY

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (Residency training at University College Hospital, Ibadan)

West African College of Physicians (Residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan)

Universityof Amsterdam,Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hebrew University, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom

M.B.,B.S.

F.M.C.Paed

F.W.A.C.P.

Certification

Fellowship

F.R.C.P.C.H.

June, 1977

May, 1986

April 1992

July 1986

May 1998

April 2012

Medicine/Surgery

Paediatrics/Paediatric Cardiology

Paediatrics/Paediatric Cardiology

Paediatric Cardiology

Paediatric Cardiology

(Noninvasive& Interventional

Cardiology)

Paediatrics

  • POSITIONS AND HONORS

1972-1977                       Bendel State, Nigeria Merit Award   Scholarship for Undergraduate 
                                      studies in Medicine                             
Oct. 1981 to Dec. 1981    Clinical Fellowship in Internal Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical 
                                      School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K                 

July1984- Dec.1985              Clinical Fellowship of the Department of Paediatric Cardiology,  
                                                       Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,  
                                                       Holland

Dec.1996 to May1998            Clinical Fellowship of the Department of Cardiology, 
                                                        Hadassah University Hospital,Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

May 1992 to Date                   Member of the Court of Examiners, National Postgraduate Medical College of 
                                                         Nigeria

April 1995 to Date                    Member of the Court of Examiners, West African College of 
                                                          Physicians

April 1993 to Date                    Resource person to both the West African College of Physicians 
                                                          and NationalPostgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

1989/90, 1990/91, 2000/2001     Voted by clinical students of the College of Medicine, 
                                                           University of Ibadan as best  lecturer for the each of the 
                                                           academic sessions.

June 16, 1998 to October 12, 2000      .Appointed by the University Council as Acting Head of the 
                                                                   department, of Paediatrics, College of Medicine,               University of  Ibadan, Nigeria.

October 1, 2011–September 2015   Appointed by the University Council as Head of the department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Sept. 2002 to Sept. 2006          Secretary General, Nigerian Cardiac Society

Oct. 2004 to date                     Secretary General, Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR)

September 2009 to date           Chairman, Pan African Network of PaediatricCardiologists

Sept. 2003 to Date                  Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Nigerian Journal of Cardiology.

Researches

1992             University of Ibadan Senate Research Grant to establish Reference 
                      Values of Left Ventricular dimensions and functional parameters in Nigerian 
                      children using echocardiography

2002             University of Ibadan Senate Multidisciplinary Research Grant for the 
                     establishment of reference values of Renal dimensions in Nigerian children using 
2005             University of Ibadan Senate Multidisciplinary research grant for the 
                     canine models of cardiac dimensions and functions using ultrasound 
                      (Paediatric Cardiology, Veterinary Physiology, Radiology) ultrasound
                      (Paediatric Cardiology, Radiology, Nephrology)

2008             MacArthur Multidisciplinary Research Grant for the establishment of Renal Normograms inNigerian 
                     Newborns (Paediatric Cardiology, Radiology, Neonatology, Social Sciences and  Epidemiology)

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(i)       Books or Chapters in Books already published

      PaediatricCardiology

            Chapters in Books

  1. (a.) Omokhodion S.I. (1996)Aetiology of congenital heart disease: in Omokhodion S.I. and 
                       Kike Osinusi (Eds) ofWest African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update 

                   CourseSeries 1 – Paediatric Cardiology and  Respiratology. ; Chapter 2 .p 8-11.

  (b.)           Omokhodion S.I. (1996)Nomenclature of congenital heart diseases: in Omokhodion S.I. and  
                  Kike Osinusi (Eds) of West African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update 
                  Course Series 1 – PaediatricCardiology and Respiratology.  Chapter 3 .p 12-14.

  (c.)              Omokhodion S.I. (1996) Left to right shunting situations: in Omokhodion S.I. and Kike Osinusi 
                                (Eds) of West African College of       Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update Course Series 1 – PaediatricCardiology and Respiratology. Chapter 6 p 29-33.

(d.) Omokhodion S.I. (1996) Obstructive Cardiovascular lesions: in Omokhodion S.I. and Kike Osinusi (Eds) of West African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update Course Series 1 – PaediatricCardiology and Respiratology. Chapter 8 .p 39-44.

(e.) Omokhodion S.I. (1996)Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in children: in Omokhodion S.I. and KikeOsinusi (Eds) of West African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update Course Series 1 – Paediatric Cardiology and Respiratology. Chapter 9 .p 45-52.

(f.) Omokhodion S.I. (1996)Childhood heart failure: in Omokhodion S.I. and Kike Osinusi (Eds) of West African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update Course Series 1 – Paediatric Cardiology and Respiratology.  Chapter 12 .p 73-82.

(g.) Omokhodion S.I. (1996)Paediatric ECG : in Omokhodion S.I. and Kike Osinusi (Eds) of West African College of Physicians Faculty of Paediatrics Update Course Series 1 – Paediatric Cardiology and Respiratology.  Chapter 13 .p 83-97.

2          (a.) Omokhodion S.I. (2006) Infective Endocarditis. In Nkangineme K.E.O. and Azubuike J.C. eds of Paediatrics and        Child Health in a Tropical Region; Chap 44; 340-4.

(b.) Omokhodion S.I. (2006) Kawasaki Disease. In Nkagineme K.E.O. and Azubuike J.C. eds of Paediatricsand Child Health in a Tropical Region ; Chap 45; 344-6

                        3        Udo P. and Omokhodion S.I.(2012) Pulmonary Artery Pressure in Apparently Healthy Nigerian Children –                                 Doppler Echocardiagraphic Assessment of Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure. Lambert Academic Publishing

                   (ii)      Articles that have already appeared in learned Journals

                   Paediatric Cardiology

4      Jaiyesimi F., Aluko O., Omokhodion S.I., Adebo A. Variability in the clinical manifestation of constrictive pericarditis. Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics; 1989;16(3&4):39-48

5      Omokhodion S.I., Losekoot T.G., Jaiyesimi F. Serum creatine kinase and creatine kinase MB-isoenzyme activities in perinatally asphyxiated infants. European Heart Journal 1991;12(9):980-984

6      Omokhodion S.I., Ogunkunle O.O. Left ventricular submitral aneurysm in a ten year old boy: case report. Tropical Cardiology; 1991 17(68):157-160

7      Ogunkunle O.O., Omokhodion S.I., Olasode B.J., Pindiga U.H. Rhabdomyoma of the heart associated with endocardialfibroelastosis in a Nigerian neonate:. Tropical Cardiology 1992;18(70): 67-71.

8      Omokhodion S.I., Akang E.E.U., Pindiga H.U., Abowehyere J., Liman A.S. The changing pattern of childhood infective endocarditis in Ibadan: a report of neonatal candidal endocarditis and a review of 33 years of autopsy records. Tropical Cardiology 1997;23(89):25-31

9      Rein A.J.J.T, Nadjari M., Bromiker R., Omokhodion S.I., Nir A.  Detection of an obstructive membrane in the ductusarteriosus of a fetus using high frame rate echocardiography. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; 1998; 13(4): 250-252.

10   Rein A.J.J.T., Omokhodion S.I., Nir A. Significance of a cardiac murmur as the sole clinical sign in newborn. Clinical Pediatrics 2000 ;39(9):511-20

11   Cohen A.J., Tamir A., Houri S., Abegaz B., Gilad E., Omokhodion S.I., Zabeeda D., Khazin V., Ciubotaru.,Schachner A. Save a Child's Heart : we can and we should. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2001;71: 462-468

12   Omokhodion S.I., Baiyeroju-Agbeja A.M., Adegboye V.O., Adeyemo A.A., Lagunju I.A. Patency of the ductusarteriosus in newborns: experience in a Special Care Baby Unit. Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics; 2001;28(3):61-67

13   Oladokun R.E., Omokhodion S.I.  Left ventricular dimensions and functional parameters in apparently normal Nigerian children. Tropical Cardiology 2002; 28(112): 65-71

14   Adegboye V.O., Ogunkunle O.O., Omokhodion S.I.,Brimmo A.I., Adebo O.A., Ogunseyinde O.O., Obajimi M.O.  Coarctation of the aorta: experience at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics: 2002; 29(2): 27-33

15   Lagunju I.A., Omokhodion S.I.  Childhood heart failure in Ibadan, Nigeria. West African Journal of Medicine 2003; 22(1): 42-5.

16   Omokhodion S.I., Jaiyesimi F., Losekoot T.G. Standard 12-lead and 24 hour Holter ECG observations in a biracial group of perinatally asphyxiated newborns. West African Journal of Medicine 2003;22(3):253-8

17   Adegboye V.O., Omokhodion S.I.,Ogunkunle O, Brimmo I, Adebo O.A  Palliation for transposition of great arteries. Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research 2003; 5(3-4):129-133.

18   Ogunkunle O.O.,Omokhodion S.I., Oladokun R.E., Odutola AHeart failure complicating Tetralogy of Fallot. West African Journal of Medicine 2004;23(1): 75-8

19   Omokhodion S.I.,Adegboye V.O., Ogunkunle O.O., Shotunbi P.T., Omokhodion  F.O., Oladokun R.E., Lagunju I.A., Koshile-Palmer E.O, Akinyemi A.J., Adebo O.A., Nottidge V.A., Oshuntokun O, Onuzo O, Cohen A.J, Tamir A., Sion H.A., Siasson L., Gilad E., Frimpong-Boateng K., Sereboe L.A.  Treatment of structural heart disease through international collaboration: the Ibadan experience. Nigerian Journal of  Cardiology 2005;1(1):39-46

20   Omokhodion S.I., Lagunju I.A. Prognostic indeces in childhood heart failure. West African Journal of Medicine 2005; 24(4): 325-8

21   Omokhodion S.I., Adeniyi F.O. Cardiac dimensions and Functional parameters in children with sickle cell anaemia in Ibadan. Journal of Peadiatrics and Neonatology 2005; 2(3):25-30

22   Omokhodion S.I.Management of patients with Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Nigeria – need for a national system of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. South African Medical Journal 2006; 96(3): 237-9

23   Disu E.A., Omokhodion S.I., Renner J.K. Serum Lipid profile of Nigerian Children in Urban Lagos. Nigerian Journal of Cardiology 2006; 3(1): 11-21

24   Omokhodion S.I., Tamir A., Oladokun R.E., Raucher A. Left Coronary Artery to Right Atrium fistula: the value of echocardiography in a low resource setting. Nigerian Journal of Cardiology 2006; 3(2) :14 – 19

25   Omokhodion S.I.  Meeting the Challenges of Paediatric Cardiovascular Healthcare in a developing economy: The Ibadan experience. Archives of Ibadan Medicine; Child Health I Edition;2006 8(1):26-31

26   Mayosi B, Robertson K, Volmink J, Adebo W, Akinyore K, Amoah A, Bannerman C, Biesman-Simons S, Carapetis J, Cilliers A, Commerford P, Croasdale A, Damasceno A, Dean J, Dean M, de Souza R, Filipe A, Hugo-Hamman C, Jurgens-Clur SA, Kombila-Koumba P, Kotzenberg C, Lawrenson J, Manga P, Matenga J, Mathivha T, Mntla P, Mocumbi A, Mokone T, Ogola E, Omokhodion S, Palweni C, Pearce A, Salo A, Thomas B, Walker K, Wiysonge C, Zaher S. The Drakensberg declaration on the control of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Africa.S Afr Med J. 2006 Mar;96(3 Pt 2):246

27   Omokhodion S.I., Onuegbu U.S., Nwaorgu O.G.B., Ogunkunle O.O.,  Pure tone audiometry in children with congenital heart disease and their healthy control group. Nig J Cardiol 2007(Jan-Jun)4(1): 11-16

28   Adediran K., Omokhodion S.I., Adebiyi A., Ogunkunle O.O Pure tone audiometric evaluation of children with Sickle Cell anaemia in Ibadan. Nigerian Journal of Cardiology 2008; 5(1):4-9

29   Ogunkunle O.O., Asinobi A., Omokhodion S.I., Ademola A.D. Nephrotic syndrome complicating cyanotic congenital heart disease: a report of two cases West African Journal of Medicine 2008; 27(4):263-6

30   Sadoh W.E., Omokhodion S.I.  Streptococcal throat carriage rate among school children in Egor Local Government area of Benin City,Nigeria.Nigerian Journal of Cardiology 2008; 5(1):22 – 27

31   Afolabi J.K., Omokhodion S.I.  Normal Limits for Paediatric Electrocardiogram in Ilorin, Nigeria. Nig. J Cardiol 2009

32   Animasahun B.A., Omokhodion S.I.,Okoromah C.A., Njokanma O.F., Ekure E.N. Echocardiographic findings among children with sickle cell aanaemia at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Nigerian Journal of Postgraduate Medicine 2010;17(2): 107- 12

33   Watkins D.A., Omokhodion S.I., Mayosi B.M. The History of the Pan AfricanSociety of Cardiology (PASCAR): The first 30 years 1981 – 2011. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa May – June 2011; 22(3): 122-3

                   General Paediatrics

34   Omokhodion S.I., Adeyemo A.A., Akindele J.A. Neonatal klebsiellasepticaemia in Ibadan: implications for neonatal care in developing countries. Early Child Development and Care.1993; 91:77-85

35   Adeyemo A.A., Akindele J.A., Omokhodion S.I.Klebsiellasepticaemia, osteomyelitis and septic arthritis in neonates in Ibadan, Nigeria. Annals of Tropical. Paediatrics.1993; 13: 285-289

36   Walker O., Salako L.A., Omokhodion S.I.,Sowunmi A. An open randomized comparative study of intramuscular artemether and quinine in cerebral malaria in children. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1993; 87(5): 564-6

37   Salako L.A., Walker O., Sowunmi A., Omokhodion S.I., Adio R., Oduola A.M.J. Artemether in moderately severe cerebral malaria in Nigerian children. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1994; 88 Suppl 1: 13-15

38   Baiyeroju-Agbeja A.M., Omokhodion S.I.  Screening for retinopathy of prematurity in Ibadan. Nigerian Journal of Ophthalmology 1998;6(1):23-5

39   Baiyeroju-Agbeja A.M., Omokhodion S.I.Occular abnormalities in Newborns needing special care. Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics 1998;25(2-4):49-52

40   Akinyinka O.O., Omokhodion S.I.,Olawuyi J.F., Olumese P.E., Brown B.J. Tympanic thermometry in Nigerian children. Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 2001: 21(2): 169-74

41   Omokhodion F.O., Omokhodion S.I. Health problems and other characteristics of child workers in a market in Ibadan. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 2001; 30: 81-85

42   Omokhodion S.I., Ladipo J.K., Odebode T.O., Ajao O.G, Famewo C.E., Lagundoye S.B., Sanusi A.A, Gbadegesin R.A. The Ibadan conjoined twins: a report of omphalopagus twins and a review of cases reported in Nigeria over 60 years. Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 2001; 21:263-270

43   Oguche S., Omokhodion S.I.,Adeyemo A.A., Olumese P.E. Low plasma bicarbonate predicts poor outcome of cerebral malaria in Nigerian children. West African Journal of Medicine 2002; 21(4):276-279

44   Adegboye V.O., Omokhodion S.I.,Ogunkunle O., Obajimi M.O., Brimmo A.I., Adebo O.A. Experience with the management of diaphragmatic hernia at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics 2002; 29(2):40-46

45   Lagunju I.A. Omokhodion S.I., Brown B.J., Adeniyi O.F. Camptomelic dysplasia in one of a set of twins   Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics 2002; 29(4): 122-4

46   Omokhodion F.O., Omokhodion S.I. Socio-economic determinants and attitude to child labour among school children in Ibadan.  African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 2004; 33(4): 305-9

47   Omokhodion F.O., Omokhodion S.I. Health status of working and non-working school children in Ibadan, Nigeria. Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 2004; 24(2):175-8

48   Omokhodion F.O., Omokhodion S.I., Odusote T.O. Perceptions of child labour among working children in Ibadan, Nigeria. Child care Health and Development 2005; 31(4): 283-8

49   Agunloye A.M., Ayede A.I., Omokhodion S.I., The role of routine postnatal abdominal ultrasound for newborns in a resource-poor setting: a longitudinal study.  Biomedical Central Pediatrics 2011; 11(2):64

50   Kigbu A., Oladejo O., Ajayi S.O., Adeoye P.O., Ogunkunle O.O., Omokhodion S.I., Falade A.G.; Migrating aspirated foreign body with associated intra-atrial clot. African Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011.

51   Animashaun B.A., Njokanma O.F., Nwodu U.P., OmokhodionS.I.. (2013) Relationship of age anthropometry and haemoglobin concentration with echocardiographic findings in Nigerian children with sickle cell anaemia. Nig. J. Paediatr. 40(1); 55 - 59

52   Florence Burté, Biobele J. Brown, Adebola E. Orimadegun, Wasiu A. Ajetunmobi, Francesca Battaglia, Barry K. Ely, Nathaniel K. Afolabi, DimitriosAthanasakis, Francis Akinkunmi, OlayinkaKowobari, Samuel Omokhodion, KikelomoOsinusi, Felix O. Akinbami, Wuraola A. Shokunbi, OlugbemiroSodeinde, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes (2012). Severe Childhood Malaria Syndromes Defined by Plasma Proteome Profiles

PLoS One. 2012; 7(12): e49778. Published online 2012 December 4. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049778

PMCID: PMC3514223

53   Wasiu A Ajetunmobi, Adebola E Orimadegun, Biobele J Brown, Nathaniel K Afolabi, Folorunso A Olabiyi, John I Anetor, Samuel Omokhodion, KikelomoOsinusi, Felix O Akinbami, Wuraola A Shokunbi, OlugbemiroSodeinde, Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes. (2012). Haemoglobinuria among children with severe malaria attending tertiary care in Ibadan, Nigeria

Malar J. (11): 336. Published online 2012 October 5. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-336

PMCID: PMC3502429

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