Faculty Member

Professor Temidayo Ogundiran pursued postgraduate training in surgery at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, and became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in October 1996, and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in June 1999. He thereafter attended many workshops and training programs in oncology from many centres in the United States of America and Hong Kong. In 2003/2004, he was at the University of Toronto for a Master degree program in Bioethics.

He is involved in clinical, epidemiological and genetic research. He was a local PI in genetic epidemiology of breast cancer in Blacks research, a collaboration between University of Ibadan, Nigeria and University of Chicago USA for over twenty years. He also collaborated in cross-cultural study of informed consent in the US and Nigeria. He is the Academic Director of the West African Bioethics Program, a multi-faceted NIH-funded initiative that runs a MSc Bioethics program at the University of Ibadan and trains Ethics Committee members across West Africa, among others.

As a scholar and academic, he has contributed to 9 chapters in books and more than  100 scientific articles, scientific abstracts and proceedings in international peer reviewed journals. He has attended over 80 scientific conferences at home and abroad, given more than 100 presentations in scientific conferences and workshops, and 26 public health/awareness lectures in markets, religious centres and other public places. He has supervised research projects of 24 students at undergraduate, master and PhD levels and has contributed to the training of at least 10 full-fledged General Surgeons at fellowship level.

Professor Ogundiran has received many scholarships, grants and honours and has been a past or current member of many local and international academic and professional bodies and committees, including International Affairs Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Emergency Care Ethics Working Group of Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA, Multidisciplinary Cancer Management Course (MCMC) Working Group of ASCO, and UI/UCH Ibadan Human Research Ethics Committee. He is a past or current member of the Editorial Committee of many international journals. He also belongs to many academic and professional societies at home and abroad.

He was a World Health Organization/World Bank Visiting Professor of Surgery at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), University of Sierra Leone, and the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex, Connaught Hospital, Freetown from June 2017 to December 2019.