The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has appointed Prof. Olusegun Ojo as the Provost of its College of Health Sciences.
His appointment took effect in August and will last for two years, according to the university.
The FUTA Medical Programme had been part of the founding brief of the university since 1981 but was activated in 2021 when the National Universities Commission (NUC) approved it as the latest addition to the programs offered by the 40-year-old institution.
Ojo, a Professor of Pathology at the Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences in Ile Ife since 2001, is also a Consultant Histopathologist at the affiliated Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC) since 1990.
He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, in 1983 and subsequently undertook Postgraduate Residency Training in Pathology, achieving the Fellowship of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in Anatomical Pathology in 1989.
He also obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2021.
Since 1990, Ojo has maintained a research and clinical interest in the gastroenterological study of liver diseases and disorders of the digestive tract. He has been instrumental in establishing a collaborative network of researchers in this field in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, known as the Gastroenterological Society of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Additionally, he has served as the President of the Society for Gastroenterology in Nigeria (SOGHIN) and the Africa Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE), a subsidiary of the World Gastroenterology Organization.
The don, who currently serves as the Chairman of the Faculty of Pathology at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, is extensively published in Gastroenterology and Anatomical Pathology in international journals.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Tropical Pathology, the premier and foremost journal of pathology in Africa.
He authored “Essential Pathology for Clinical Students in the Tropics,” a standard undergraduate text on pathology.
Ojo is expected to bring his extensive academic and educational administrative experience, as well as his long clinical service experience, to this role by, among other things, galvanizing the establishment of a FUTA Teaching Hospital in Akure, which remains the only state capital in the country without a tertiary hospital.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has appointed Prof. Olusegun Ojo as the Provost of its College of Health Sciences.
His appointment took effect in August and will last for two years, according to the university.
The FUTA Medical Programme had been part of the founding brief of the university since 1981 but was activated in 2021 when the National Universities Commission (NUC) approved it as the latest addition to the programs offered by the 40-year-old institution.
Ojo, a Professor of Pathology at the Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences in Ile Ife since 2001, is also a Consultant Histopathologist at the affiliated Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC) since 1990.
He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, in 1983 and subsequently undertook Postgraduate Residency Training in Pathology, achieving the Fellowship of the Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College in Anatomical Pathology in 1989.
He also obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2021.
Since 1990, Ojo has maintained a research and clinical interest in the gastroenterological study of liver diseases and disorders of the digestive tract. He has been instrumental in establishing a collaborative network of researchers in this field in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, known as the Gastroenterological Society of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Additionally, he has served as the President of the Society for Gastroenterology in Nigeria (SOGHIN) and the Africa Middle East Association of Gastroenterology (AMAGE), a subsidiary of the World Gastroenterology Organization.
The don, who currently serves as the Chairman of the Faculty of Pathology at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, is extensively published in Gastroenterology and Anatomical Pathology in international journals.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Tropical Pathology, the premier and foremost journal of pathology in Africa.
He authored “Essential Pathology for Clinical Students in the Tropics,” a standard undergraduate text on pathology.
Ojo is expected to bring his extensive academic and educational administrative experience, as well as his long clinical service experience, to this role by, among other things, galvanizing the establishment of a FUTA Teaching Hospital in Akure, which remains the only state capital in the country without a tertiary hospital.
