Prof. Akujobi is currently the Foundation Provost, King David University of Medical Sciences, Uburu, Ebonyi State. She is married and has three children.Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, the First Lady of Kebbi State, is a Consultant Paediatrician and an advocate for women’s health, with a particular focus on cancer.
In the course of looking after children, their mothers started confronting her with their medical issues and requests for assistance particularly around Breast and cervical cancer. This eventually inspired her to start her own NGO, the Medicaid Cancer Foundation . MCF creates awareness on health matters, trains health workers, and funds the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients in Nigeria.
In 2008, she got employed by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital for her residency training in Surgery and Urology, and completed it in record time. On 25th October 2013, she became a certified Urologic Surgeon after she passed the West African College of Surgeons Fellowship Examination, making her the first woman in Nigeria to attain this status in a previously male-only surgical specialty.
She was a board member of Faith Mediplex Benin, 2004-2008, 2016- 2018, as well as the regional representative of the pan Africa Association of Neurological Sciences between 2009- 2011. She began her post graduate medical training/surgical residency training in September 2006 at the National Hospital Abuja. In 2009, after passing the Part I exam of both the National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons , she proceeded to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital to begin her Neurosurgery residency training. She thereafter returned to National Hospital Abuja in 2011 where she completed her Neurosurgery residency training.
Professor Ogunbiyi has several publications in both local and international journals as well as book chapters. One of her cardinal objectives is to advance the practice of clinical and laboratory haematology with utmost professionalism in a patient-centred manner. Her clinical and research focus are to deepen the understanding of thrombotic disorders and bleeding disorders, thereby fostering their diagnosis and treatment as well as generating research interest in this field.
She joined the faculty staff of the University of Ibadan and made history as the first Clinical Virologist with a MBBS and PhD degrees in Virology.
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