Name: Victor O. LASEBIKAN Google Scholar Profile Research Gate Profile Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alternate Email Address:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Biography: Prof. Victor Lasebikan is a Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. He obtained the academic degree of B.Sc. Health Sciences, MB CHB from the University of Ife (Nigeria), MS, M.Sc. in Addiction Medicine from the Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, United States, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and University of Adelaide Australia. He also obtained MPH and Ph.D. (Public Health/Community Medicine) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and MD (Psychiatry) from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He holds professional postgraduate certifications as a Fellow in Psychiatry of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria; Fellow, West African Postgraduate Medical College; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh). He also holds a Psychosomatic Specialist Certificate from the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine. He is currently the regional adviser to the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, UK. He is a leading African member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM), International Society of Biological Research on Alcohol (ISBRA) and Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Professor Victor Lasebikan has also immensely contributed to science in the area of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and recently published a 40-chapter textbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry termed “Textbook of Psychiatry in Medicine”. He is also a leading Nigerian member of the International Psycho-oncology Society. Professor Lasebikan had received numerous research and travel grants and was one of the collaborators for the World Mental Health Survey Initiative, a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization coordinating the implementation and analysis of general population epidemiologic surveys of mental, substance use, and behavioural disorders in countries in all WHO Regions. Professor Lasebikan is a global addiction expert with the International Society of Addiction Medicine and also a Fellow of the International Society of Addiction Medicine Global Network Expert. Prof Lasebikan has received over 35 Fellowship awards. CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICINE & SCIENCES I am one of the collaborators for the World Mental Health Survey Initiative, a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization coordinating the implementation and analysis of general population epidemiologic surveys of mental, substance use, and behavioural disorders in countries in all WHO Regions I am also the principal investigator of a research work aimed by the TFTBT Health Initiatives, aimed at studying drug and alcohol use in the Military population in Nigeria. The study was carried out in a military compound, which accommodates 81 infantry battalions, 42 division engineers, 545 signals regiment and currently houses about 3000 soldiers and their families and was the first study of its kind in Nigeria. The results were startling and were published in international journals. Another contribution to science is community surveys of alcohol and drug use in open non-roofed bars in Nigeria. This ongoing survey is sponsored by the Board of Trustees of the Endowment Fund for the Promotion of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Nigeria, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Nigeria, of which I am the principal investigator. The lack of effective alcohol and drug policy in Nigeria is a major factor in the amazing rise in alcohol and drug use across all ages in Nigeria. Dr Lasebikan has just finished writing the first textbook in Nigeria in the area of consultation-liaison psychiatry. The title of the book is “A Textbook of Psychiatry in Medicine”. The 40-chapter book was reviewed by three giants in medicine in the world, Professor O Gureje, Professor Jude Ohaeri and Professor Olusola Ogunniyi. The book will soon be publicly launched. 1. Gureje O, Lasebikan V O, Ephraim Oluwanuga O, Olley B.O, Kola L. Community study of knowledge of and attitude to mental illness in Nigeria. British journal of psychiatry 2006; 186: 436 – 41. 2. Amoran O E, Lawoyin T O, Lasebikan V O., Prevalence of depression among adults in a rural town in Nigeria. Australian journal of rural health 2005; 15 (3): 211-215. 3. Gureje O, Lasebikan V O. Use of mental health services in a developing country, Result from the Nigerian Survey of mental health and Well being. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatry Epidemiology 2005; 41: 44-49. 4. Lasebikan VO (2019) Contemporary Issues in Public Mental Health and Addicition. Eds Ola BA.Abdulmalik O. Great Mind Publishers. ISBN 978-978-52839-7-6 5. JO Abdulmalik, VO Lasebikan, VA Makanjuola, FO Oshiname, BD Oladeji, Achieving health security in Nigeria: A strategic blueprint for addressing psychoactive substance use. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 48 (Supplement 1), 111-115 6. AA Ojagbemi, JO Abdulmalik, VO Lasebikan, BD Oladeji, VA Makanjuola. Optimal mental health for achieving health security in Nigeria: a strategic blueprint. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 48 (Supplement 1), 99-104 7. Lasebikan, V., Lasebikan, T., & Adepoju, S. (2019). Outdoor smoking in Nigeria: prevalence, correlates and predictors. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1313. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7601-8n 8. Akinlade, KA, Adedokun, KA, Rahamon, SK, Lasebikan VO " (2020) Elevated Levels of Visfatin and Fetuin-A in Patients with Major Mental Disorders Arch. Bas. App. Med. 8 (2020) 49 – 53 9. Rahamon, SK., Akinlade, KS., Arinola, OG., Kakako, SL., Lasebikan, VO. (2020). Impact of Type and Duration of Use of Antipsychotic Drugs on Plasma Levels of Selected Acute‑Phase Proteins in Patients with Major Mental Illnesses Biomed Res J. 2020, IP: 10.232.74.22 10. Lasebikan VO, Fakunle S, Lasebikan TO, Alabi M, Adenipekun A. (2020). Twelve-Month Prevalence of Psychiatric Morbidity in Cancer Patients in a Nigerian Oncology Centre BMC Psychiatry (In Press) 11. Akinlade KS, Ofagbor ER, Rahamon SK, Lasebikan VO. Effect of adiposity and type of antipsychotic medication on plasma levels of resistin and adiponectin in patients with major mental illnesses. Afr J Biomed Res 2019; 22:235-239. 12. Lasebikan VO, Ige OM (2020). Alcohol Use Disorder in Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients and Their Non-Tuberculous Family Contacts in Nigeria. Pan African Medical Journal: 36; 321 13. Onileimo V, Bella‐Awusah T, Lasebikan V, Omigbodun OO (2021). Brief training in child and adolescent mental health: Impact on the knowledge and attitudes of pediatric nurses in NigeriaJournal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 43, (3): 140-164 14. Lasebikan VO (2021). “A Textbook of Psychiatry in Medicine”. A 40-chapter textbook of consultation liaison psychiatry. (In Press). 15. Lasebikan VO, Ola BA, Alabi MA, Lasebikan TO, Fakunle S, Oladele O, Adenipekun A Profile of Psychosocial Distress and Validation of the Distress Thermometer among Cancer Patients in a Nigerian Radiation-Oncology Centre. Nigerian Journal of Psychiatry 2023 16. Lasebikan VO, Ola BA, Alabi MA, Lasebikan TO, Fakunle S, Oladele O, Adenipekun A Psychiatric Morbidity among Patients Living with Cancer in a Nigerian Oncology Centre. Nigerian Journal of Psychiatry 2023 17. Oni B, Ola BA, Lasebikan VO. The Effect of Screening and Brief Intervention on Alcohol Consumption Among a sample of High School Students in Nigeria.. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2023. 18. Oladele OO, Makanjuola VA, Alabi MA, Lasebikan VO (2023) Comparing Suicidal Behaviour and Correlates in Schizophrenia Versus Diabetes. African Health Science, 2023. 19. Lasebikan TO, Koyejo J. Ola BA, Lasebikan VO. (2023). Impact of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment on Cannabis Consumption among Adolescents Attending Public Schools in Lagos. American Journal of Addiction, 2023. 20. Oke KO, Ajibade B, Lasebikan (2023). Effects of Psychoeducation on Suicidality among Outpatients with Schizophrenia Attending Ring Road State Hospital Ibadan. African Health Sc. (Accepted 09/2023) 21. Adeniran, G, Oke KO, Lasebikan (2023). Journal of Mental health and Prevention. (2023) 22. Oni B, Ola BA, Lasebikan VO. (2023). he Effect of Screening and Brief Intervention on Alcohol Consumption among a Sample of High School Students in Nigeria. Substance Use Misuse (Accepted 10/2023)Profile
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