Name: Linus I. OKEKE Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternate Email Address 1: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternate Email Address 2: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Biography: Born 14th January 1958, I attended St. John’s Secondary School, Alor in Anambra state 1971 to 1975, graduating with Division One Distinction. I was a Federal Government Scholar and obtained the MB,BS degree of the University of Ibadan in 1981 with Distinction in Anatomy and won the E. Latunde Odeku memorial prize in Neurosurgery. After my housemanship at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and a one-year National Youth service with the Nigerian Army in Bauchi, I did my residency training in Surgery at the University College Hospital from 1983 to 1989 and obtained the Fellowship of the West Africa College of Surgeons in 1989. I was appointed Lecturer I, University of Ibadan and an honorary Consultant Urologist to the University College Hospital Ibadan on 1st August, 1990. I am a Schevenin Scholar and hold the Postgraduate Diploma in Urology of the University of London(1994). I rose through the ranks of Senior Lecturer (1994), Reader (2003) to Full Professor in 2006. I am a Fellow of the West Africa College of Surgeons (FWACS), Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS), Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College (FMCS), Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and hold 3 certificates from the University of Washington Global Health Programs. I hold the membership of many professional medical associations and have over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals. I have supervised many fellowship dissertations for the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West Africa College of Surgeons. I review for many local and international journals, served in accreditation teams for the National Postgraduate Medical College and the West Africa College of Surgeons. I have also served in many committees of the Senate of the University of Ibadan and headed the Department of Surgery, University of Ibadan and the University College Hospital, Ibadan from 2016 to 2020. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Journal Articles 1. Okeke, L.I. 2001. Daycase transurethral prostatectomy without post-operative catheterization. Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research 2. Okeke, L. I. 2001. Experience with caudal block regional anesthesia for transurethral resection of the prostate gland. West Africa Journal of Medicine 3. Okeke LI, Osobamiro AO, Dogo A, Ladipo JK, Kadiri S, Arije A, Akinkugbe OO, Ajao OG. 2002. Reducing the cost of hemodialysis in Ibadan: A new method of temporary vascular access. Orient Journal of Medicine. 4. Okeke, L.I. 2003. Transurethral resection of the prostate in diabetics. Nigerian journal of surgery 5. Okeke, L.I. 2003. Catheterizing the male urethra. Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research 6. Okeke, L.I. 2004. Soap induced urethral pain in boys. West Africa journal of Medicine 7. Okeke LI, Aisuodionoe-Shadrach OI. 2005. Quality of life measures of patients with urethral strictures on indwelling suprapubic catheter drainage. Nigerian Journal of Genitourinary Medicine 8. Okeke LI . 2005. Prostatorrhea in Ibadan. Nigerian Journal of Genitourinary Medicine, 9. Okeke LI. 2005. Scheduling tunneling TURP in carcinoma of the prostate. African Journal of Urology. 10. Okeke LI, Aisuodionoe-Shadrach OI, Adekanye AO 2005. Congenital complex penile curvature. Journal of the National Medical Association. 11. Okeke LI, Ikuerowo OS. 2006. Familial torsion of the testis. International urology nephrology 12. Okeke LI, Asinobi AA, Ikuerowo OS. 2006. Epidemiology of complications of male circumcision in Ibadan, Nigeria. BioMed Central Urology 13. Okeke LI, Ikuerowo SO, Popoola AA, Shittu OB, Olapade-Olaopa EO. 2006. Clinical presentation and outcome of management of patients with spinal metastasis from prostatic cancer: a five year review. African Journal of Urology, 14. Okeke LI, Aisuodionoe-Shadrach OI, Adekanye AO. 2006. Urethral duplication with a perineal opening in a 4 year old boy. Journal of the National Medical Association PREVIOUS STUDENTS (Selected) Fellowship 1. Title: Patient satisfaction and changes in serum PSA and Testosterone following three techniques of bilateral orchidectomy for prostate cancer. 2. Title: Optimal period of abstinence from sexual intercourse for optimal seminal fluid analysis in oligozoospermic patients’Profile
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Faculty: CLINICAL SCIENCES
Department: Surgery
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