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PROFESSOR OLADAPO ADENRELE ASHIRU OFR Professor Oladapo Ashiru OFR is the pioneer of IVF technology in West Africa sub Sahara. He became a Professor of Anatomy at the College of Medicine University of Lagos at the age of thirty-two. An astute teacher frontline Reproductive Endocrinologist and Assisted Reproductive technology.

Chief Medical Director of Medical ART Center President of African Fertility Society --- 2015 to Date Assistant Secretary-General of Fertility Society -- 2019 to Date Life and Career Professor Oladapo Adenrele Ashiru is the CEO of the newly established Institute of Reproductive Medicine in Lagos Nigeria. He attended the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, (1969 – 1974), graduating with distinction in Anatomy. His postgraduate training took place at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha (1977-1979).

Academic and Professional qualifications include MB, BS, Lagos, 1974; MS (Nebraska) 1978; Ph.D., Nebraska, 1979; HCLD (High Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director), American Board of Bioanalysis, 1997, and CC (Clinical Consultant) ABB-USA, 2012; FASN, FNSEM. He is the President of the African Fertility Society and Association of Anatomical Society of Africa. He is a member of the Executive Council of the International Federation of Fertility Societies and the International Federation of Association of Anatomists and a member of the WHO Expert Committee on Infertility. He was made a Professor of the College of Medicine University of Lagos in 1983 at the age of 32 making him the youngest professor of Medicine in Africa to date. He was awarded Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR), 2005. He was also made an Otunba of Ijebu Land by the Awujale the Paramount Ruler of Ijebu Land in 2006 in recognition of his meritorious work in infertility as Otunba Orodudujoye of Ijebuland. He has received several awards in his field of work. Prof Ashiru has published over 140 scientific papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed national and International Journals. He has given series of lectures and television interviews on his field and he writes a Tuesday weekly Column in the Nigerian Punch Newspaper on reproduction and general well-being since 2010. He also contributes to the Guardian, Vanguard and Nation, Thisday, Tribute Newspapers, and National Magazines occasionally.

His area of research interest is mainly in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproductive Technology. He discovered and reported the follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) positive feedback mechanism in 1979. Several plenary lectures were given internationally on this work. This knowledge is used clinically in assisted conception technologies in the use of exogenous FSH injection in ovulation stimulation. He pioneered the technique of In-Vitro Fertilization and Embryo transfer in West Africa in 1983 (experimental), 1984 (human) co-pioneer of the first test-tube baby through IVF-ET in 1989 with Giwa-Osagie.

He has equally made significant contributions in the area of experimental, and clinical reproductive toxicology using stereological and modern Mayr medicine methods respectively. He introduced the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and embryo selection to remove abnormalities like Down’s syndrome and more importantly sickle cell embryos in married sickle cell carriers in Nigeria and also for family balancing.

Prof. Ashiru also has a diploma in Modern Mayr Medicine from The Austrian Academy of Medicine. Modern Mayr Medicine (2013) a new concept in medical treatment aimed at preventive and curative medicine through proper detoxification, nutrition, and bio-identical medications. Prof Ashiru is the CEO and Chief Medical Director of the MART Group of Health services (Institute of Reproductive Medicine) consisting of the Medical ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) Center, the MART Diagnostic Center, the Mart Medicare (for High-Risk Obstetrics and Neonatal care, and the Mart Life Detox Clinic the first modern Mayr clinic in Africa.

References

Punch Newspaper - Breaking News, Nigerian News & Multimedia. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://punchng.com/topics/healthwise/oladapo-ashiru/ Prof Oladapo Ashiru | Medical Art Center. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.medicalartcenter.com/prof-oladapo-ashiru/ Prof. Oladapo Ashiru - Mart-Life Detox Clinic & Anti-aging Spa. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.martdetoxclinic.com/team_type/prof-oladapo-ashiru/ Ashiru, O. (2019, December 10). Recent advances in assisted reproductive technology in Nigeria. Retrieved from https://punchng.com/recent-advances-in-assisted-reproductive-technology-in-nigeria/ Ashiru, O. (2020, September 09). Proper care of the gallbladder (2). Retrieved from https://punchng.com/proper-care-of-the-gallbladder-2/ Ashiru, O. A. (1990). Man know thyself and you shall obtain the healing power: An inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Lagos on Wednesday, December 12, 1990. Lagos: University of Lagos Press. Ashiru, O. A. (1988). Synopsis of neuroanatomy. Igeja, Lagos: Lantern Books, Literamed. Ashiru, O. A. (1978). Mechanisms involved in estrous FSH release in cyclic rats. Ashiru, O. A. (1979). Mechanisms regulating pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone during the rat estrous cycle. Ashiru, O. A., & Blake, C. A. (1979). Stimulation of Endogenous Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Release during Estrus by Exogenous Follicle-Stimulating Hormone or Luteinizing Hormone at Proestrus in the Phenobarbital-Blocked Rat*. Endocrinology, 105(5), 1162-1167. doi:10.1210/endo-105-5-1162 Dyer, S., Archary, P., Potgieter, L., Smit, I., Ashiru, O., & Bell, E. G. (2020). Assisted reproductive technology in Africa: A 5-year trend analysis from the African Network and Registry for ART. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.06.021 Okeke, C., Ailoje-Ibru, K., Olukoya, K., Ogbeche, R., Adewusi, A., Iloabachie, E., & Ashiru, O. (2014). Successful pregnancy outcome after in vitro fertilisation following Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis/Polymerase Chain Reaction screening for single gene disorder (sickle cell anaemia) before embryo transfer: The clinical experience of an in vitro fertilisation clinic in Nigeria. Nigerian Medical Journal, 55(1), 87. doi:10.4103/0300-1652.128181