ANOTHER cap has been added to the feathers of Nigerian professionals abroad as a US-based Nigerian doctor, Ola Akinboboye, has been named the new President of the Association of Black Cardiologists in the US.

Akinboboye


Akinboboye was unanimously elected by the 4,500 member-strong US national umbrella organization recently and inaugurated last month in Chicago, Illinois.

Speaking in an exclusive interview yesterday, the Chief Executive Officer of the association, Mr. Andre Williams said "the association is excited to have Dr. Ola Akinboboye become the president of ABC," for the next two years.

Akinboboye, a graduate of Medicine from the University of Ibadan, is a prominent US medical practitioner with health centres in New York, an award-winning nuclear cardiologist, and is listed among the top doctors in the New York region by leading US medical publications.

The president and leaders of the ABC are deemed among significant figures in the American society in driving and directing the nation's medical and health policy outside of government circles, by virtue of the association's representation of all black Americans and people of colour.

The association is dedicated to eliminating the disparities related to cardiovascular disease in all people of colour in the US and it currently has public and private partnerships that are increasing its impact in communities across the nation.

Besides, the association is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), as an educational institution regulating the practice of cardiology and related professions. Its stated mission "is to champion the elimination of cardiovascular disparities through education, research and advocacy."

Although Akinboboye was inaugurated last month in Chicago at a well-attended annual membership dinner of the national group of black cardiologists, the headquarters of the association is in Washington DC, the US capitol, which affords it to relate effectively with the US government.

Founded in 1974 by 17 medical doctors, the ABC was established "to bring special attention to the adverse impact of cardiovascular disease on African Americans," and membership has now grown to well over 4,000 members at the last count, according to Williams who spoke from Washington DC.

Speaking about his election and assumption of office as the president of Black cardiologists in the US, Akinboboye, said: "ABC is the umbrella organization for Black cardiologists in the United States, and the organization plays a critical role in healthcare policy making, particularly on issues regarding healthcare of African-Americans."

He said the main goal of the ABC is the elimination of disparities on heart related diseases between

Blacks and Whites in the US.

Akinboboye who will serve a two-year tenure until 2014 is the second Nigerian to be elected president of the ABC, after Dr. Elizabeth Ofili who was president from 2000 to 2002.

According to Williams, Akinboboye had served earlier on the association's leadership on the Medical Education Committee, where he helped with securing the accreditation of the group.

He said him: "Akinboboye has spoken at many national conferences and besides his medical degree, he also has an MPH and MBA from Columbia University."

He added that as president, Akinboboye will advance membership of the ABC and also ensure international growth including linking the US with the African continent with training programmes.

Williams explained that members of the association are drawn from across the length and breadth of the US, including all certified cardiologists, corporate bodies, and non-medical practitioners drawn from the American community interested in the promotion of a good heart health.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/apr/28/5.html

Up Nigeria.......

Congrats to him and his family.

Shouldn't it be racist to have such an association? I'm wondering if the whites have an equivalent association with exclusive white membership. Just feels strange.

This is a mediocre association. It smacks of inferiority complex to have a black-only association of cardiologists in a country such as the USA. They dont have Association of White Cardiologists there. Let him go and compete in the general USA association of cardiologists, win, and let us praise him. Half-baked people.

what do you expect from a racist tribalistic newspaper like odili news. rubbish typical nyamaria newspaper

Adejoro74: This is a mediocre association. It smacks of inferiority complex to have a black-only association of cardiologists in a country such as the USA. They dont have Association of White Cardiologists there. Let him go and compete in the general USA association of cardiologists, win, and let us praise him. Half-baked people.

Well he was elected unanimously to head this (black) association because of his general acclaim as a cardiologist in New York. So he already competes favorably with the general population of USA cardiologists, it seems. Nothing "half-baked" about that. But I get your point about how it would be even more impressive if he were president of a totally national organization.

However another Nigerian, Babatunde Ogunnaike, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in the U.S. a few months ago, which is definitely impressive and praiseworthy.

There is a National Society of Black Engineer, Black lawyers etc

So no inferiority complex there

dayokanu: There is a National Society of Black Engineer, Black lawyers etc

So no inferiority complex there

Anything scientific for blacks only is inferior in the USA. Because they cannot compete, they segregate. Hey! Many of the so-called naija profs here are teaching in Black-only unis.

Adejoro74:

Anything scientific for blacks only is inferior in the USA. Because they cannot compete, they segregate. Hey! Many of the so-called naija profs here are teaching in Black-only unis.

You sound very ignorant. America is a place that has been and remains highly segregated. NOT at the instigation of blacks, but whites. You can only ''COMPETE'' when there's a LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, and if you say there IS, you're even more ignorant than I thought. And 'black only unis' which you scorn out of stupidity, were established in the first pace because of the historical white policy of segregation in education and access to national resources in that sector. So do please go and study the US before opening your mouth to utter uninformed gibberish.

Eko Ile,

Was that the same guy that was named one of the top cardiologist in the USA?

Impressive! He just joined Mrs. Olufunmilayo Olopade of Ekiti state and Kase Lawal in high ranks.

May God continue to bless his children with knowledge, wisdom and understanding.

Odua a gbe a o!

Adejoro74:

Anything scientific for blacks only is inferior in the USA. Because they cannot compete, they segregate. Hey! Many of the so-called naija profs here are teaching in Black-only unis.

I understand that you're on the war path right now Nchara, but this is the guy you were calling half-baked:

Dr. Akinboboye served on the teaching faculty of Columbia University from 1995 to 2000. He was the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, the heart Center, from 2000 to 2006. Between 2006 and 2009 he served as Associate Director of the Division of Cardiology and Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT at New York Hospital Queens.

In 2004 and 2005, he served as an invited expert on interpretation of challenging cases in nuclear cardiology at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology.

Dr. Ola Akinboboye has received numerous awards. He was selected by Castle Connolly for inclusion in it's prestigious Top Doctors: New York Metro Area - 9th ed. representing the top 10% of doctors in the region and by the Network Journal as one of the Best Black Doctors in the New York tri-state area in February 2005. He was cited as one of the best cardiology specialists by New York magazine in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Dr Akinboboye is an accomplished clinician, teacher and researcher. In 1986 he received a 4-year grant for the National Institute of Health to study the effects of treatment on the cardiovascular complications of hypertension in African-Americans. He also received a 3-year grant form the American heart Association to study the effects of sildenafil on exercise capacity in patients with congestive heart failure. He is also the recipient of many industry and Saint Francis Heart Foundation research grants on diabetes and heart imaging. He has over 100 scientific publications in the fields of hypertension, diabetes and heart imaging.

Dr. Ola Akinboboye has trained several generations of fellows in cardiology at New York Presbyterian medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and New York Hospital Queens.

He has served as chair of several symposia in national scientific meetings of many professional societies including American College of Cardiology, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, American Heart Association and Association of Black Cardiologists. He presently serves on the Boards of the certifying board of nuclear cardiology and Nigerian high education fund. He also served on the Board of the Association of Black Cardiologists from 1999 to 2005.

Dr. Akinboboye presently chairs the eligibility committee of the Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the CME committee of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
Professional Affiliations
· Fellow, American College of Physicians
· Fellow and Member of the International Committee 1997-2000, American College of Cardiology
· Member, American Heart Association
· Member, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks
· Member, Americal Society of Nuclear Cardiology
· Member, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
· Member, Association of Black Cardiologists
· Member, Certification Board of Nuc Cardiol.
· Speakers' Bureau, Bristol-Myers Squibb
· Speakers' Bureau, Jujisawa
· Abstract Grading, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks: Annual scientific sessions

I think you should retract your words and slap yourself a few times for suggesting that this man is "half-baked."

Rossikk:

You sound very ignorant. America is a place that has been and remains highly segregated. NOT at the instigation of blacks, but whites. You can only ''COMPETE'' when there's a LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, and if you say there IS, you're even more ignorant than I thought. And 'black only unis' which you scorn out of stupidity, were established in the first pace because of the historical white policy of segregation in education and access to national resources in that sector. So do please go and study the US before opening your mouth to utter uninformed gibberish.

You are a buffoon. Chinese and Indians come here and compete at the highest level with whites and you are here yarning ignorance. There is no white segregation in science as of today, got it? The best blacks are those heading places that are multi-ethnic. Anyone cocooning themselves in black-only societies are being mediocre. I strongly hope he belongs to the main society.

Potentials! Potentials!! Potentials!!!! Yet the God forsaken country is still a cesspit..

Nigeria needs to be closed down - and all the people in there transferred to different countries around the world.

[size=18pt]A top Nigerian cardiologist, based in New York, Dr. Oluyemi Badero, has been named among the top interventional cardiologists in the United States[/size], according to a prominent US rating organization for the medical profession.

Castle Connolly, the organisation which publishes distinguished US doctors, has listed Badero among the top US doctors, based in the New York metro area, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut states.

The publication, which is the 15th edition and dated 2012, was released recently, reporting that Badero, who earlier had been named among top US cardiologists, is one of the interventional cardiologists to reckon with in the US. Interventional Cardiology is deemed a rarefied specialty in medical practice, and fewer African-Americans and blacks are qualified in that field.

Commenting on his listing this year by the Castle Connolly, regarded as eminent among US medical professionals, Dr. Badero said the recognition would further spur him to do more and do better, adding that “I feel highly honoured.”

Badero was among a handful of US black doctors and Nigerians on the Castle Connolly. Some of the other Nigerian doctors, who had featured on the list, include Professor Ferdinand Ofodile, Dr Ola Akinboboye and Dr Chukwuma Okadigwe.

Badero’s training in Africa was noted in the publication. He graduated with an MBBS in 1984 from the then University of Ife. However, it added that Badero had two residency programmes in the US, both at the State University of New York between 1990 and 1994. It was also highlighted that Badero had two post-residency fellowships at SUNY and Yale, between 1994 and 1998.

The publication also noted his three levels of America medical board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology.

The publication stated that the process of selecting the top doctors “begins with the identification of a select pool of board-certified physicians from the total numbers of doctors practicing in a given area.” The process involves a survey of already distinguished and leading physicians and hospital CEO’s and medical directors, who are asked to nominate top doctors on an annual basis.

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/6743-nigerian-doctor-named-top-cardiologist-in-us

Nope, that's another person.

A top Nigerian cardiologist, based in New York, Dr. Oluyemi Badero, has been named among the top interventional cardiologists in the United States, according to a prominent US rating organization for the medical profession.

Castle Connolly, the organisation which publishes distinguished US doctors, has listed Badero among the top US doctors, based in the New York metro area, which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut states.

The publication, which is the 15th edition and dated 2012, was released recently, reporting that Badero, who earlier had been named among top US cardiologists, is one of the interventional cardiologists to reckon with in the US. Interventional Cardiology is deemed a rarefied specialty in medical practice, and fewer African-Americans and blacks are qualified in that field.

Commenting on his listing this year by the Castle Connolly, regarded as eminent among US medical professionals, Dr. Badero said the recognition would further spur him to do more and do better, adding that “I feel highly honoured.”

Badero was among a handful of US black doctors and Nigerians on the Castle Connolly. Some of the other Nigerian doctors, who had featured on the list, include Professor Ferdinand Ofodile, Dr Ola Akinboboye and Dr Chukwuma Okadigwe.

Badero’s training in Africa was noted in the publication. He graduated with an MBBS in 1984 from the then University of Ife. However, it added that Badero had two residency programmes in the US, both at the State University of New York between 1990 and 1994. It was also highlighted that Badero had two post-residency fellowships at SUNY and Yale, between 1994 and 1998.

The publication also noted his three levels of America medical board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology.

The publication stated that the process of selecting the top doctors “begins with the identification of a select pool of board-certified physicians from the total numbers of doctors practicing in a given area.” The process involves a survey of already distinguished and leading physicians and hospital CEO’s and medical directors, who are asked to nominate top doctors on an annual basis.

Why do you guys fight over other people's achievements??

Crazy NL lunatics!!!

This news is really "typical".

[size=18pt]Nigerian Akinboboye Named Top Heart Doctor in New York Area[/size]


[size=18pt]Out of about 60,000 medical doctors[/size] and physicians practicing in the three states area that make the New York Metropolitan region, a Nigerian trained but US-based doctor has been named among the top heart doctors in the area.

According to the Castle Connolly, a leading annual publication of distinguished US doctors in New York, Chicago and Florida regions, Dr. Olakunle Akinboboye is among the top US doctors based in the New York metro area which includes New York, New Jersey and Connecticut states. He is identified as a leading specialist in cardiovascular disease. Dr Akinboboye is one of a handful of Black doctors and the only Nigerian internist/cardiologist on the list. The other identified Nigerian physicians are Professor Ferdinand Ofodile and Dr Okadigwe.

The publication stated that the process of selecting the top doctors "begins with the identification of a selected pool of board-certified physicians from the total numbers of doctors practicing in a given area." The process involves a survey of already distinguished and leading physicians and hospital CEOs and medical directors, who are asked to nominate top doctors on an annual basis.

Moreover, it is noted that selection is predicated on an extensive nomination procedure and a set of standards "which each nominated doctor was required to meet ie respect of their peers and academic excellence."

Specifically the nominees are asked to suggest names of doctors , "especially those to whom they would refer their patients and their own family members." The publication noted that only doctors who deliver outstanding patient care" are chosen

Dr. Akinboboye, now a nuclear cardiologist, graduated from the University of Ibadan College of Medicine before coming to the US about 18 years ago and although he had completed his training in Nigeria, took up, as required to practice in the US, another internal medicine residency and a cardiology fellowship at the Nassau County Medical Center and the State University of New York, both in the New York area.

Afterwards, he moved to the prestigious Columbia University and completed another fellowship with dedicated training in nuclear cardiology and advanced echocardiolography. Not just a medical doctor, Akinboboye is also an academic and taught at the Columbia University in New York between 1995 and 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine.



A well read scholar, Akinboboye has the unique distinction of earning degrees not only in medicine but also an MBA from prestigious Columbia Business School and also a Master's degree in Public Health from Columbia School of Public Health. He also has to his credit over 100 scientific publications in the fields of hypertension, diabetes and heart imaging.

Currently he is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stonybrook and also the Director of Nuclear cardiology at a leading international medical center in New York, St Francis Hospital-The Heart Center, Roslyn. NY.

Recently Akinboboye, an active member of the Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association here in the US-he is the immediate past president-opened his own private clinic in Laurelton, New York, Laurelton Heart Specialists, where he is medical director.

Recognised as a nuclear cardiology expert by both the American heart Association and the Association of Black Cardiologists both in the US, Akinboboye was recently featured in another US magazine, Network Journal as one of the best black doctors in the United States.

He has also been featured recently in a research publication of the American Heart Association as one of the association's funded researchers, whose research focus is to "ensure that heart failure patients have the best chance at long term survival, as well as lead active lives." The association's publication noted that Akinboboye's research is "addressing ways to improve the ability of heart failure patients to increase their exercise tolerance." Equally, Akinboboye was featured on " echoes from the Valley" a national image re-orientation program on Nigerians in the Diaspora that was nationally televised recently in Nigeria.

Earlier this year, the Ondo State born Nigerian doctor was awarded the humanitarian award of the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan for his "ongoing efforts to spread expertise in the field of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Nigeria." He also received the award of the US Association of Black Cardiologists for his "dedicated service as a board member since 1999 to 2005.
He has received grants from the US government through the National Institute of Health, and also from the American Heart Association in recognition of his outstanding expertise and skills as a medical researcher and physician.

In a chat, Akinboboye, who is in his 40s, expressed deep concern about how Nigerian professionals abroad can make an impact at home in their various areas of expertise. He said for instance UCH graduates abroad are involved in several activities to improve the level of medical education in Nigeria including taking up a challenge from MacArthur foundation that if UI alumni in the US and worldwide can raise $250,000 for UI the foundation will match it up with an equal grant of $250,000.

The challenge was made earlier this year, and Akinboboye, who is an active fundraiser towards that goal said already about $20,000, has been raised. Akinboboye is a board member of the Nigerian Higher Education Fund set up in the US to improve university education in selected Nigerian universities including Ibadan, ABU and Port Harcourt.

Similarly, Akinboboye said he is also involved alongside other colleagues to commence what he called "tele-medicine" training, whereby US based doctors through satellite can begin to train and impact doctors and residents back in Nigeria.

According to him, "this is a mechanism for distance learning, so that we can take advantage of technology and the time difference between here and Nigeria. He said about $100,000 would be needed to do this and the plan was already in the offing.

For Nigerians who can also afford it, Akinboboye said there is also an 'Executive Health Screening programme" for highflying Nigerians to come to the US for detailed health screening and relaxation as is done in other countries for executive of companies

Adejoro74:

You are a buffoon. Chinese and Indians come here and compete at the highest level with whites and you are here yarning ignorance.

Dumbito, who told you blacks do not 'compete at the highest level'? What criteria do you use to reach such conclusions? Are the black professionals working at different workplaces from other races? Or does your little brain conclude that they must do, since they formed their own black support organizations?

There is no white segregation in science as of today, got it? The best blacks are those heading places that are multi-ethnic. Anyone cocooning themselves in black-only societies are being mediocre.

See, when I tell you that you're an uninformed dunce you think I'm joking. Here: Educate yourself:



The Economist


Racial discrimination in science
A black and white answer
In American science, race affects the chance of getting a grant
Aug 20th 2011 |

http://www.economist.com/node/21526320




YOU might expect that science, particularly American science, would be colour-blind. Though fewer people from some of the country’s ethnic minorities are scientists than the proportions of those minorities in the population suggest should be the case, once someone has got bench space in a laboratory, he might reasonably expect to be treated on merit and nothing else.

Unfortunately, a study just published in Science by Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas suggests that is not true. Dr Ginther, who was working on behalf of America’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), looked at the pattern of research grants awarded by the NIH and found that race matters a lot. Moreover, it is not just a question of white supremacy. Asian and Hispanic scientists do just as well as white ones. Black scientists, however, do badly.

Dr Ginther and her colleagues analysed grants awarded by the NIH between 2000 and 2006, and correlated this information with the self-reported race of more than 40,000 applicants. Their results show that the chance of a black scientist receiving a grant was 17%. For Asians, Hispanics and whites the number was between 26% and 29%. Even when these figures were adjusted to take into account applicants’ prior education, awards, employment history and publications, a gap of ten percentage points remained.

This bias appears to arise in the NIH’s peer-review mechanism. Each application is reviewed by a panel of experts. These panels assign scores to about half the applications they receive (the others are rejected outright). Scored applications are then considered for grants by the various institutes that make up the NIH. The race of the applicant is not divulged to the panel. However, Dr Ginther found that applications from black scientists were less likely to be awarded a score than those from similarly qualified scientists of other races, and when they were awarded a score, that score was lower than the scores given to applicants of other races.

One possible explanation is that review panels are inferring applicants’ ethnic origins from their names, or the institutions they attended as students. Consciously or not, the reviewers may then be awarding less merit to those from people with “black-sounding” names, or who were educated at universities whose students are predominantly black. Indeed, a similar bias has been found in those recruiting for jobs in the commercial world. One well-known study, published in 2003 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, found that fictitious CVs with stereotypically white names elicited 50% more offers of interviews than did CVs with black names, even when the applicants’ stated qualifications were identical....

Another possible explanation is social networking. It is in the nature of groups of experts (which is precisely what peer-review panels are) to know both each other and each other’s most promising acolytes. Applicants outside this charmed circle might have less chance of favourable consideration. If the charmed circle itself were racially unrepresentative (if professors unconsciously preferred graduate students of their own race, for example), those excluded from the network because their racial group was under-represented in the first place would find it harder to break in.

Though Dr Ginther’s results are troubling, it is to the NIH’s credit that it has published her findings. The agency is also starting a programme intended to alter the composition of the review panels, and—appropriately for a scientific body—will conduct experiments to see whether excising potential racial cues from applications changes outcomes. Other agencies, and not just in America, should pay strict attention to all this, and ask themselves if they, too, are failing people of particular races. Such discrimination is not only disgraceful, but also a stupid waste of talent.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526320

^^^ I've met a lot of Igbo and Yoruba pharmacists at CVS and walgreens. I trust them more than the regular pharmacists.

You should stop displaying that damaged psyche you carried all the way from Nigeria. This is not to suggest you compromise your standards if you so desire, but keep it at that without insulting hardworking Nigerians who have worked through all kinds of difficulties to make their mark.

Your statement below basically says that if blacks are doing something separate it must be inferior to whites.

Think about the following statement: What is a bowl of rice (whites) with 3 beans (blacks) thrown inside and mixed up - a bowl of rice!!!. In other words, all institutions in America either by design or by happenstance are for whites. The opposite should be the case in Africa, except that most of our people are like you who consider anything involving whites as superior to blacks - in our case a bowl of rice (blacks) with three beans (whites) thrown inside becomes a bowl of beans.

You are the kind of people that will make fun of a nose for shaping itself to hold a pair of glasses - forgetting that a pair of glasses is made that way because that is the shape of noses.

Adejoro74:
Anything scientific for blacks only is inferior in the USA. Because they cannot compete, they segregate. Hey! Many of the so-called naija profs here are teaching in Black-only unis.

Yep.

One well-known study, published in 2003 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, found that fictitious CVs with stereotypically white names elicited 50% more offers of interviews than did CVs with black names, even when the applicants’ stated qualifications were identical....

Obi1kenobi: Shouldn't it be racist to have such an association? I'm wondering if the whites have an equivalent association with exclusive white membership. Just feels strange.

For the benefit of N/Lers, there is a need to have a subspeciality like cardiology focused and dedicated to blacks, because the black, white, asian, or even jewish cardiovascular pathophysiology are not always the same. The medications used to treat black and white patients with hypertension are also different. There's a Jewish physician group dedicated to well know jewish genetic diseases, there's also a scandinavian society for managing unique nordic diseases. Hypertension in blacks is unique, just like some genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia.
So, it is the height of IGNORANCE for anybody to question the need for black association of cardiologists, because black heart diseases have been shown to be better managed by black people themselves.

Congratulations to Dr. Akinboboye, and Dr. Elizabeth Ofili, his immediate predecessor(who first taught me how to read an EKG)!

Adejoro74:

Anything scientific for blacks only is inferior in the USA. Because they cannot compete, they segregate. Hey! Many of the so-called naija profs here are teaching in Black-only unis.

Brother, I hate to disagree with you on this one. Just because it's black doesn't mean it mediocre neither is it that they can't compete. After all, they have Professional Organizations for Hispanics, Asians, et al. I don't see it as "Segregation" as you call it, but I see it as what the Congress defined it "Protected Class" . Although this is one of the few cardiology associations in the U.S., however, please, let's give credit where it's due. It's important to acknowledge other people's achievement. Congratulations Dr., I hope you lead well.

na wah! Some folks re popping champagne as if Tinubu ve taken over White House from Obama…….. Akinboboye is not even the first Nigerian to preside over this association…an Igbo son was the president of the body 10 years ago. I dey laugh

ekwy nwa: na wah! Some folks re popping champagne as if Tinubu ve taken over White House from Obama…….. Akinboboye is not even the first Nigerian to preside over this association…an Igbo son was the president of the body 10 years ago. I dey laugh

Instead of congratulating, you're comparing him to one Igbo son. Jealous much?

PS: You'll be reading a lot of news like this in the few coming months, so dont get too hot.

We might as well be posting ones from April/ May

Olufunmilola, Nigerian-Born Winconsin Scholar Wins Academic Awards

Olufunmilola Odukoya, an Assistant Professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division of the School of Pharmacy, University of

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Olufunmilola Odukoya

Wisconsin (UW), Madison, United States, recently, received the Best Post-Graduate Poster Presentation Award at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Annual meeting in March in New Orleans.
SEYI GESINDE reports



ANigerian scholar with the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, United States, Olufunmilola Odukoya, has received the Best Post-Graduate Poster Presentation Award for her work entitled: “Human Factors Analysis of Patient Safety Concerns Associated with Electronic Prescribing in Pharmacy” at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Annual meeting in March in New Orleans.

Olufunmilola, who is an Assistant Professor in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division of the school, also received an honourable mention for the Best Post-Graduate Podium Presentation entitled “Examining the Impact of E-Prescribing Use on Community Pharmacy Workflow,” and third prize in the Robert A. Ratner Senior Design Project Competition in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering for her work, “Pharmacists’ Role in Primary Care.”

APhA was the first-established national professional society of pharmacists and remains the largest association of pharmacists in the United States. Through a House of Delegates that meets each year at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition, APhA provides a forum for discussion, consensus building, and policy setting for the profession of pharmacy.

The authorities of the university recently congratulated the students and staff members of the institution on the recent ranking of the institution’s School of Pharmacy, which now ranked fifth in the United States.

“University of Wisconsin, Madison has been ranked between ninth and tenth position for many years, and it gives me great pleasure to leap over the likes of Michigan and Ohio State. You should all be very proud of your many accomplishments and their collective impact,” the university authorities said.

Olufunmilola before travelling abroad for academic pursuit had been a student of University of Lagos (UNILAG), where she graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 2007. She later bagged a Masters degree in Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2011.

As a UNILAG student, Olufunmilayo’s undergraduate research studies was in Pharmaceutical Microbiology which involved work on antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria in urine.

After graduation, she worked as a pharmacist in both hospital and community settings. She went on to work as a pharmacist in a primary health care department for the Nigerian government, helping to coordinate free health care programmes in impoverished areas.

While working as a community pharmacist, Olufunmilola recognised the many challenges of pharmacy practice and was motivated to pursue research in this area. She decided to return to graduate school and joined the social and administrative pharmacy division in 2009.

For her Master’s thesis she was awarded a grant from the Community Pharmacy Foundation to investigate the impact of electronic prescribing on patient safety and pharmacy workflow.

According to her, “the frequency of medication errors and preventable adverse drug events is one the challenges of pharmacy practice. Medication errors are among the most common medical errors and cost billions of dollars annually.”

She said community pharmacists play an important role in preventing medication errors by collaborating with health care providers and educating patients on medication use.

“There is need for improved communication and interactions between health care professionals and patients. This can go a long way in reducing medication errors and improving overall patient safety,” she said.

Her research interests are in enhancing quality of community pharmacy practice and improving collaboration between community pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.

Her focus is on system design and technology in community pharmacy to improve patient safety. She is interested in exploring the benefits and burdens of electronic prescribing as it relates to medication safety.

Her long-term goal is to develop innovative ways in which community pharmacist can be more relevant in health care provision and to help in designing work flow systems focused on improving patient care.

http://tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/youth-achiever/7219-olufunmilola-nigerian-born-winconsin-scholar-wins-academic-awards.html

Ileke-IdI:


Instead of congratulating, you're comparing him to one Igbo son. Jealous much?

PS: You'll be reading a lot of news like this in the few coming months, so dont get too hot.

Lol
Ileke mama, carry on with your petty posts norrrrrrrrrrrrrrin do you …we ve crossed and re-crossed this dash that you and your ilk re just clicking glasses for,anywayz we re well known for blockbusting so enjoy the second fiddle slot.