The new Provost of the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan (COMUI), Professor Temidayo Olusesan Ogundiran, who was recently elected as the successor of Professor Olayinka Omigbodun, today resumes office.
Ogundiran born in February 23, 1960 of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences is the 13th Provost of COMUI.
According to the information gathered on COMUI Website, Ogundiran attended Baptist College, Iwo, 1979, for Grade II Teachers Certificate, the University of Ibadan and graduated as one of the two best students in the Department of Medicine in 1988, University of Toronto, where in 2004, he obtained Master of Health Science (MHSc), and University of Dundee, where he obtained where he obtained Cert. Epid & Global Health in July 2010,
He was a co-winner of the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan Best Houseman award for the year 1988/89.
Ogundiran was trained in General Surgery at the UCH Ibadan and became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) in 1996, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999, and the American College of Surgeons in 2011.
He received further academic and professional training in the UK, Hong Kong, Kenya, and the USA. These include the Final FRCS Course at Caithness General Hospital, Wick, Scotland (1999); the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) training in ‘Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology’ at Given Institute, University of Colorado, Aspen, USA (2006); Oncology preceptorship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, all in Boston, USA (2006), Cancer molecular biology training at the Cancer Signalling Unit, Department of Clinical Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2007); and Breast cancer clinical observer program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York City, USA (2013). In 2003/2004, he utilized a Fogarty International Fellowship to obtain a Master of Health Science degree in Bioethics from the Joint Centre for Bioethics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Canada.
His interests are in Surgery, Oncology and Bioethics. His main research focus is on genetics of breast cancer in Blacks. With the University of Chicago USA, his team explored the roles that genetics and environmental factors play in breast-cancer risk in Nigerian women and in women of African ancestry. They further correlated their work with findings in women of European and Asian extractions and developed a breast cancer risk-prediction model for Sub-Sahara Africa that can identify high-risk individuals for targeted screening and follow-up.
Ogundiran is a foundation member of the West African Bioethics (WAB) Training Program, an NIH-funded initiative, now called Center for Bioethics and Research, Nigeria. He is the Academic Director of the Center to date. The WAB established a postgraduate program in Bioethics in 2007 at the University of Ibadan, which has grown into a full Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities with Dr. Ogundiran serving as its first Head of Department.
He has contributed to more than 120 book chapters and journal articles, has a Google Scholar citation of 4754, h-index of 35 and i10-index of 64 as at December 2023. He has received many scholarships and awards, supervised over 30 postgraduate and fellowship research projects, and has contributed to the training of more than 20 General Surgeons. He was promoted full Professor of Surgery in 2014.
Ogundiran has served on many academic, professional and editorial committees. He was a co-winner of the 2018 Nigerian Academy of Science Gold Medal Prize in Life Sciences, and a 2019 winner of the WACS’s Victor Anomah Ngu lectureship. He is the current Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences. On June 8, 2023, he delivered the 526th University of Ibadan Inaugural Lecture.
