Akinyinka Omigbodun

Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun graduated with distinction from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in June 1980. After residency training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology between 1982 and 1987, he was admitted as a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1987 and of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1988. He had further training in Gynaecological Oncology at the University Hospital of South Manchester, Withington, United Kingdom from 1990 to 1991 and was a visiting scholar to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA from 1993 to 1997. He was appointed Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Ibadan in October 1997 and he was the Provost of the University’s College of Medicine from August 2006 to July 2010. He has received several prizes for academic achievement during his undergraduate and postgraduate training including the International Women’s Health Coalition Training Fellowship, the Audrey Meyer Mars Clinical Oncology Fellowship of the American Cancer Society and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Prize for Distinct Contribution to Science for the Best Poster Presentation at the 52nd Annual Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 1996.

 His research activities have largely been in the area of Gynaecological Oncology with a particular focus on the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer. However, when he was a visiting scholar at Penn, he also devoted time to studying the molecular mechanisms of placentation in an effort to understand how cancers of placental tissues develop  He has supervised several dissertations on reproductive tract cancers by candidates for higher degrees of the University of Ibadan and Fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He currently leads the West African Network on Biomedical Education, a consortium consisting of six universities from four Anglophone West African countries, partnering with the Universities of Liverpool and Swansea and the Tropical Health and Education Trust in the United Kingdom to improve teaching skills for teachers in Schools of Medicine and allied health professions in West Africa. He has also been the Chief Coordinator of Courses for the West African College of Surgeons since 2002. Prof Omigbodun is the Chair of CARTA Board of Management