UCH In IBADAN Gets New CMD – City People Unveils Prof. ABIODUN OTEGBAYO

Professor Jesse Abiodun Otegbayo, a Gastroenterology/Hepatology specialist, has been appointed as the new Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University College Hospital, Ibadan. His appointment takes effect from March 1st, 2019. He will be succeeding Professor Temitope Alonge whose tenure ends by February 28th this year. While you must have heard about Professor Otegbayo’s exploits in his field as a renowned surgeon however, you probably may not that the well read, exposed and medical practitioner of international standard was born in Sekondi, Ghana and hails from Otan-Ile in Obokun Local Government area of Osun State. He is the 8th Chief Medical Director of the Premier  Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and indeed most respected Teaching Hospital in Africa, UCH.He is also married to a professor; his wife Bolanle Otegbayo Ph.D, CFS is an Associate Professor of Food Science and Technology and Director of Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnership at the BOWEN University, Iwo. They are blessed with lovely children. His, is a perfect example of a man always hungry for knowledge; his CV is intimidating and quite inspiring, as it has shown in profile and many achievements.Professor Jesse Abiodun Otegbayo was born in Sekondi Ghana on 17th December, 1961. He hails from Otan-Ile in Obokun Local Government area of Osun State. He attended Command Secondary School, Kaduna and studied Medicine and Surgery at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan from where he graduated with MBBS in 1989. He underwent Residency training in Internal Medicine at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and obtained the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in 1998. He subsequently obtained a postgraduate Certificate in Gastroenterology at the University of Tel-Aviv and Clinical Scholar at the Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Tel-Hashomer, Israel, in 2002. He was a Union Internationale Contre Cancer clinical fellow at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe Hospitals, Frankfurt, Germany in 2000.

In 2009, he was awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Gastroenterology and the Fellowship of Royal College of Physician, Glasgow in 2015. He is also a Fellow of the International Union Against Cancer of Switzerland (UICC) and West African Health Organisation Scholar for Linguistic Exchange Programme to learn Medical French at the University of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou.

Prof. Otegbayo obtained the MSc and Ph.D in Chemical pathology/immunology at the University of Ibadan in 2003 and 2011 respectively. Over the past twenty years, he has taught and supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate students to the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Ibadan, and the Fellowship of the National Postgraduate Medical College and the West African College of Physicians at University College Hospital; University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu; Babcock University/Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan; University of Port Harcourt; University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City; Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.

He also worked as Associate lecturer and Honorary Consultant physician at the Ladoke Akintola University, and the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.

He has been an examiner in Nigeria and Ghana to the West African College of Physicians since 2005 and belongs to several local and international professional associations, some of which are Nigerian Medical Association; Medical and Dental Consultants Association; America College of Physicians; Royal College of Physicians; Association of UICC Fellows; Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria’. To mention but fewmHis clinical interests are in Gastroenterology and Hepatology as evidenced by his research books on acute and chronic liver diseases, particularly viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

He has presented many academic papers at local, sub-regional and International Conferences, and has over one hundred scholarly publications to his credit in both local and international journals.Professor Otegbayo was the maiden Editor-in-Chief of the Nigeria Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Prime Medics Journal of the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Gastroenterology, Savannah Journal and Journal of the Hepatology

Research  among others. He has Head several administrative positions, some of which are President, Association of Resident Doctors; Vice President, National Association of Resident Doctors; Assistant Secretary, General Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), UCH; National Publicity Secretary MDCAN; Member Oyo State Executive Council of Nigeria Medical Association.

He was the Director of Clinical Services, Research and Training and Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, UCH, Ibadan; Head, Department of Medicine, Babcock University and Babcock University Teaching Hospital, and Department of Medicine University of Ibadan  and University College Hospital, Ibadan. 

He was World Bank Consultant to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone and later the maiden Chief Medical Director, University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex, Freetown. He is a member of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology, USA.

He is a Chartered Member, Nigeria Institute of Management (MNIM), Fellow Certified International Professional Manager, Hinted Kingdom (FCIPM-UK), Fellow Member of the International Professional Managers Association (FPMA), and holds a professional postgraduate Qualifying Diploma in Management Consultancy and Organisational Transformation.
Dare Adeniran