Английская Википедия:Adelola Adeloye

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Шаблон:Short description Chief Adelola Adeloye (born Rufus Bandele Adelola Adeloye; 1935-2021) was a Nigerian neurological surgeon and academic.

Early life and education

Adelola Adeloye who is originally from Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State was born in Ilesa in Osun State on 18 July 1935 to Ebenezer Ajayi and Elizabeth (Ajisomo) Adeloye as the first of five children.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye began his primary education at the St. Paul's CMS (Elementary) School in Ikole-Ekiti in 1941 and graduated in 1946. He started his secondary school education at Christ's School in Ado-Ekiti and was on government scholarship from 1949 till he graduated with a Cambridge School Leaving Certificate in 1952.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye studied at University College, Ibadan (now University of Ibadan) with a government scholarship from 1953 to 1960, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.Шаблон:Sfn

He obtained a master's degree in Surgery of the University of London in 1973, with a thesis Tangenital wound of the head in Nigerian Soldiers which chronicled his experience of treating neurotrauma during the Nigeria Civil War.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye completed his mandatory housemanship postings in various hospitals in Nigeria and the UK from December 1960 to March 1963. Subsequently, he took up appointment as a demonstrator and P postgraduate research student in Anatomy at Bristol University from 1963 to 1964 which he later discontinued in order to concentrate on Clinical Surgery. He was a general surgery resident at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, London; had neurotrauma training at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, Neurosurgery training at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent and at the National Hospitals, Queens Square for Nervous Diseases..Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Medicine

Adeloye passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh with Neurology as his special subject in July 1965 and a fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in November 1966. As a result, he prefers to refer to himself as a Neurological Surgeon (a Neurophysician who operates on the nervous system) rather than a Neurosurgeon.Шаблон:Sfn

On his return to Nigeria, Adeloye was employed as a post-Fellowship Senior Registrar at University College Hospital (UCH; now University of Ibadan Hospital) from December 1967 to July 1968 and appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgeon from August 1968 to 1995.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye had a brief stint as locum consultant Neurosurgeon to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Saudi Arabia from November to December 1987 before proceeding to Kuwait where he was the Head of Neurosurgery at Al-Adan Government Hospital from January 1988 to October 1990.Шаблон:Sfn While he was there, Iraq invaded Kuwait which triggered the First Gulf War. Adeloye and other expatriates were trapped incommunicado as embassies had closed, no air transport services, and telecommunication had been severed. Adeloye would later play a role as an emergency diplomat in the evacuation of 84 Africans to Baghdad. This experience would later be chronicled in his book, Inside Occupied Kuwait which was published in 2006.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye and Odeku gave the first comprehensive description of the Adeloye-Odeku disease in 1971. Initially hypothesised to be an African disease, the condition has now been reported worldwide and in all racial groups.Шаблон:Sfn

Academic

Adeloye was appointed as a temporary lecturer at the University of Ibadan (UI) from August 1968 to November 1969, a senior lecturer from November 1969 to September 1972 and a professor of Neurological Surgery in October 1972 and the Head of Surgery from 1974 to 1977.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye was Rockefeller Research Fellow Experimental Teratology at the University of Cincinnati, USA from 1972 to 1973 and a Ratanji Dalai Scholar of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1973 to 1974) for the study of CNS malformations (especially Spina Bifida Cystica).Шаблон:Sfn

After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Adeloye left for Malawi under the aegis of the World Health Organisation's short term professional staff scheme in 1991 and served as the Foundation Professor and Head of Surgery at the University of Malawi, principal of the College of Medicine, University of Malawi and a member of the university's senate from July 1991 to March 2001.Шаблон:Sfn

Upon retirement, Adeloye taught Neuroanatomy at Bowen University and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Nigeria and University of Sheffield in the UK.Шаблон:Sfn

Memberships and fellowships

Adeloye is a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1965; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1966; Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, England in1967; Fellow, International College of Surgeons and Nigerian Medical College of Surgery in 1972; Fellow, West African College of Surgeons in 1973; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1979; Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science in 1987; Fellow, Association of Surgeons of Malawi in 1993; Foundation Fellow, College of Surgeons of East and Central Africa in 1999; Honourary Fellow, American College of Surgeons in 2009.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye was one of the foundation members of the Pan-African Association of Neurological Sciences 1972 and also the second vice-president of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) where he served from 1981 to 1985 and was in 2001, elected an Honourary President for Life, becoming the first Black African to be so honoured by that body.Шаблон:Sfn He is also Honourary President for Life of the PAANS, the Nigerian Society of Neurological Sciences (NSNS) and the Nigerian Academy of Neurological Surgeons (NANS).Шаблон:Sfn Adeloye was elected the president of the Neurosurgery section of the Nigerian Society of Neurological Sciences in 1988 and served as president of the Surgical Association of Malawi from 1998 to 2000 and further as the founding president of the Neurosurgical Society of East and Central Africa in 1999.Шаблон:Sfn In 2010, Adeloye became an emeritus professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Ibadan.Шаблон:Sfn

Bibliography

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• Nigerian Pioneers of Modern Medicine: Selected Writings (1977)
• African Pioneers of Modern Medicine: Nigerian Doctors of the Nineteenth Century (1985)
• Early medical schools in Nigeria (1998)
• Practice and Practitioners of Medicine in Nigeria (2004)
• A village genius: The story of my father (2004)
• My salad days: the primary school years (2009)
• My Secondary School Saga (2013)
• Henry Dallimore: Founder of Christ's School, Ado-Ekiti (1970)
• E. LatundeOdeku: An African Neurosurgeon (1976)
• Doctor James Africanus Beale Horton: West African Medical Scientist of the Nineteenth Century (1992)
• Compendium of Principals and Vice Chancellors of University of Ibadan (2015)
• The biography of Codanda Kamala Kalappa Adeloye (2015)

Personal life

Adeloye married Kamala Codanda Kappala Adeloye an Indian paediatrician in October 1967. The union was blessed with three children as well as grand-children.Шаблон:Sfn

Adeloye was crowned the Atorise of Ikole-Ekiti on 7 April 2018 thus becoming a chieftain.Шаблон:Sfn

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