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Accordia's Academic Alliance

Accordia's Academic Alliance

Accordia Global Health Foundation's Academic Alliance is a coalition of committed academicians, physicians, researchers, and other leaders from well-established institutions in North America, Europe, and Africa who work collaboratively to pursue Accordia's goal of building stronger academic medical centers in Africa. Members of the Academic Alliance provide expertise and guidance to shape future healthcare programs in Africa and to provide African academic medical centers with a reliable source of international expertise in infectious disease.

West African Chapter

Professor William Blattner, MD (Co-Chair)
Director, Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland

Professor John Idoko, MD (Co-Chair)
Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)

Professor Clement Adebamowo, BM ChB Hons, FWACS, FACS, ScD
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Baltimore – United States

Professor Etim Moses Essien, NNOM, MB, BS, MD
Professor of Haematology, Uyo University - Nigeria

Professor Emmanual Ezedinachi, MD, DTMH
Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute of Tropical Diseases Research, University of Calabar

Professor Emnanuel Oni Idigbe, BSC, PhD
Coordinator, Research Planning and Management, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research

Professor Phyllis Kanki, DVM, SD
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University – United States

Professor Oladapo A. Ladipo, MBChB, FRCOG, FMCOG, FWACS, OON
President and CEO, Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)

Professor Souleymane Mboup, PharmD, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Chief Bacteriology-Virology Laboratory, Université Cheikh Anta Diop - Senegal

Professor Idris Mohammed, OON, NNOM, MB, MD, FRCP, DTMH, FMCP, FWACP
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Immunology, University of Maiduguri - Nigeria
Hon. Chief Consultant Physician, Federal Medical Centre, Gombe - Nigeria

Professor Robert L. Murphy, MD
Director, Center for Global Health - Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University

Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi
Director, Nigerian Centers for Disease Control

Professor Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola, MBChB, MSc, PhD, FMCPath, FWACP
Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Lagos - Nigeria
Consultant, Lagos University Teaching Hospital - Nigeria

Professor Geoffrey C. Onyemelukwe, MBBS, FWACP, FMCP, DTM, FICA
Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Ahmadu Bello University - Nigeria

Professor Papa Salif Sow, MD, MS
Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Dakar in Senegal

Professor Umar Shehu, CFR, FAS, DFMC
Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine, University of Maiduguri - Nigeria

Professor Rich Enujioke Umeh, MB BCh, MSc (CEH), DO, FMC, MRC, FWACS, FICS
Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Nigeria
Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus
Director, Global Health Initiative, University of Nigeria

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Clement Adebamowo, BM ChB Hons, FWACS, FACS, ScD

Dr. Clement Adebamowo is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Baltimore. He is also a member of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. In Nigeria, he offers national service as the Chairman of the National Health Research Ethics Committee and Director of the Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries. He studied medicine at the University of Jos, Nigeria; Surgery at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

He has research interests in oncology including viral oncology related to HIV infection and oncogenic viruses such as HPV. He has been conducting cancer and non-communicable diseases research at Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) for more than 4 years and has many publications in the field of oncology, surgery, medical education and bioethics. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIH-funded African Collaborative Center for Microbiome and Genomics Research; Program Director of the West African Bioethics Training Program and the Training in NCD Epidemiology in Nigeria projects. He also directs the CDC-funded Pre-Service Training Program for Clinical, Nursing, and Community Health Personnel in Nigeria (Spearhead). He is an adviser to IHVN on Strategic Information, Training and Research.

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Professor Emmanuel Oni Idigbe, BSC, Ph.D

Professor Oni Idigbe is a Medical Bacteriologist by training and joined the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in 1979 as a Research Fellow II after his Ph.D programme at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has had 35 years of service at NIMR during which he rose through the various research appointments and became the Director-General of the Institute in 2000; a position he held until 2008. Currently he is the Coordinator of Research Planning and Management and Coordinator of the HIV/TB Research Group in the Institute. Within this period of service, Professor Oni Idigbe established the National Reference Laboratory for HIV as well as the National Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis at the institute. In the early 1990’s, he developed and established the database for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. He further carried out a comparative study on the evaluation of the efficacy of branded versus generic antiretroviral drugs in the Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS. He pioneered the first national survey on Multi-drug resistant TB and he is currently the Chair of the National MDR-TB Committee. With a grant support from the NIH/CDC he is presently conducting a study on resistant to first and second line antiretroviral drugs, amongst HIV patients on treatment in Nigeria. Professor Idigbe served as the Co-investigator of the PEPFAR programmed at NIMR where over 17000 patients are currently accessing antiretroviral treatment. His current areas of research interests are: MDR-TB, ARV resistance, evaluation of innovative and diagnostic techniques and clinical management strategies, as well as community TB and HIV studies. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Medical Bacteriology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago in May 2010. He has supervised over 12 Ph.D programmes and has been a recipient of 25 national and international grants. He serves on several boards and has received several fellowship grants and awards of excellence. He presently has 156 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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Professor Oladapo .A. Ladipo, MB.Bch, FRCOG, FMCOG, FWACS, OON

Professor Ladipo is a renowned Obstetrician and Gynecologist (internationally and nationally) with over 38 years experience in health care delivery, including over 28 years of consulting and initiating public Health program interventions. Prof Ladipo is the lead/Co-founder, President and Chief Executive officer of the Association for Reproductive& Family Health (ARFH), Nigeria.

Prof Ladipo has provided technical assistance on Sexual and Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS prevention and other Life saving skill to many developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Many Nigerian Local, State and Federal agencies have also benefited from mentoring or technical assistance through the Non-Governmental Organization that he established in 1989.

While a service faculty staff of University College Hospital, Ibadan, he pilot tested the first successful community based delivery of health services in Nigeria; this earned him the WHO Sasakawa award in 1991 for innovative health services in disadvantaged communities in Nigeria. Prof Ladipo is the chairman of National Reproductive Health working group, Chair of Association for Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP), Chair of the Advisory Committee for Evidence for Action Project  and also a National award recipient  of the  Order Of the office of Niger (OON) and two chieftaincy titles for his immense contribution to Knowledge and improvement of healthcare in Nigeria.

His areas of interest include but are not limited to Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, HIV/AIDS/TB/Malaria, Community Based Distribution of Maternal and Child health Services, Youth/Adolescent programming, Orphan and Vulnerable Children , Safe Motherhood Programmes, Contraceptive Technology among others. Through his research activities he has to his credit about One hundred and seventy one (171) publications in reputable national and international journals.

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Idris Mohammed, OON, NNOM, MB, MD, FRCP, DTM&H, FMCP, FWACP

Idris Mohammed, OON, NNOM, MB, MD, FRCP, DTM&H, FMCP, FWACP, is professor of medicine and clinical immunology at the University of Maiduguri, and chief consultant physician Federal Teaching Centre Gombe. He is also currently Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Gombe State University, and Chairman, Implementation Committee of the proposed College of Medical Sciences, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria. After obtaining the MBBS from the University of Ibadan, he proceeded to the United Kingdom where he underwent further training that earned him the MRCS, LRCP, DTM&H, MRCP, and MD in Immunology. Upon his return to Nigeria, he served as chief medical officer and permanent secretary Ministry of Health, Bauchi, before transferring his services to the Ahmadu Bello University where he became a full professor of Medicine in 1983. Professor Mohammed again transferred his service (on request) to the University of Maiduguri as professor of medicine and clinical immunology in 1984. While at Maiduguri, he served as the foundation chief medical director of the university teaching hospital for nine years and as provost of the College of Medical Sciences for four years.

His major areas of research are in various aspects of immunopathogenesis of disease, HIV/AIDS, malaria, typhoid infection, and meningococcal disease. His landmark research on preventive vaccination against epidemic meningococcal meningitis contributed to the development of the new conjugate MenAfrivac vaccine that is expected by the WHO to end epidemics of meningitis as a public health problem in Africa. Among the many honors he has received are: Officer of the Order of the Niger, Nigerian National Order of Merit (the highest academic and intellectual honor in Nigeria), and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. He is one of 14 scientists adjudged to have contributed the most towards Nigeria's development in the 50 years since independence, and inducted to the Nigeria Hall of Fame.

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