User:Otegbayoa

Otegbayo graduated MBBS in 1989 from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, underwent residency training in Internal Medicine at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and obtained the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in 1998. He subsequently obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Gastroenterology at the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel in 2002. He subsequently obtained the MSc and PhD in Chemical Pathology/Immunology at the University of Ibadan in 2003 and 2011 respectively. In 2009, he was awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow, in 2015. He has taught and supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate students to the Fellowship levels at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Ladoke Akintola University, Osogbo, University of Nigerian Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Babcock University/Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos and Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos. He has been an examiner in Nigeria and Ghana to the West African College of Physicians since 2005 and belongs to several local and international professional associations. His clinical and research interests are in liver and gastrointestinal diseases, particularly viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. He has presented many academic papers at local, sub-regional and international conferences, and has over ninety scholarly publications to his credit in both local and international journals. He was the maiden Editor-in-Chief of the Nigerian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Member Editorial Board of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. He has held several administrative positions, some of which are Chief Resident, Department of Medicine, UCH, President, Association of Resident Doctors, Vice President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Assistant Secretary, General Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman, Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), UCH, National Publicity Secretary, MDCAN, Member Oyo NMA State Executive Council (1995-1996 & 2006-2008), sub-Dean (Undergraduate), College of Medicine UI. He was the Director of Clinical Services, Research and Training & Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, UCH Ibadan, Head, Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Babcock University and Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Consultant to Federal University of Technology, Akure, on Establishment the newly approved School of Health and Health Technology, Interim Director, West African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, World Bank Consultant to the Ministry of Health & Sanitation, Sierra Leone; and maiden Chief Medical Director, University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex, Freetown (2016-2017). He is currently a member, International Relations Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology, United States of America. Otegbayo, is a Chartered Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, and is currently a Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and a Consultant Physician/Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist to the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria, and presently the Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. He is married to Bolanle Otegbayo, Professor and Vice Provost, Postgraduate School, Bowen University, Iwo.