Profile of the Provost
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
August 1, 2024 – July 31, 2028
PROFESSOR TEMIDAYO OLUSADE OGUNDIRAN
MBBS (Ibadan), MHSc (Toronto), Cert. Epid & Global Health (Dundee),
FWACS, FRCS (Edinburgh), FACS, FAMedS, FAS
The Vice Chancellor, acting on behalf of the University Governing Council has approved the appointment of Professor Temidayo Olusade Ogundiran as Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan with effect from 01 August, 2024 to 31 July, 2028.
Professor Temidayo Olusade Ogundiran was born into the family of Mr. Jacob Ogundiran and Mrs. Sarah Adegbenjo Adebisi (both deceased) of Ongoke House, Alagbede Compound in Iseyin, in Oke Ogun Area of Oyo State, Nigeria on Tuesday, February 23, 1960. He attended Baptist Primary School, Koso, Iseyin, from 1966 to 1971. After a brief stint at the Baptist Modern School, Koso, Iseyin, he transferred to Iseyin District Grammar School for secondary education from 1972 to 1976. In the 1978/79 academic session, he attended Baptist College, Iwo for a one-year post-certificate Grade II Teachers Training, where he won the prize as the best student in the class. He worked as a classroom teacher in primary and secondary schools in Igbeti and Okeho in Oyo State for 5 years altogether and had a brief stay at the Polytechnic Ibadan.
He gained admission into the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in1982 and obtained the MBBS degree in 1988. At the final MBBS examination in 1988, he co-won the Alice Moboade Akinyele Memorial Prize for the best student in the Department of Medicine. He was selected on merit for internship at the University College Hospital ((UCH), Ibadan, from 1988 to 1989 and emerged as one of the two Best House Officers of the Year. This earned him an automatic appointment for specialty training in the same institution. Following the housemanship at the UCH, he worked briefly as a medical officer at the Baptist Medical Centre, Saki between August and September, 1989. He proceeded from there to observe the one-year National Youth Service Corp scheme (1989-1990) in the then Gongola State of Nigeria. He was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for services rendered to the Numan Medical District (Numan and Guyuk Local Government Areas).
After the NYSC programme, he worked briefly as a pioneer medical officer at the Freedom Polyclinic, Yola from where he proceeded to the UCH, Ibadan for residency training in the specialty of Surgery in March 1991. He obtained the Fellowship of the West African College of Surgeons in General Surgery in October 1996 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh by examination in 1999. He also holds the Associate Fellowship of the Faculty of Surgery of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (May 1994). From September to December 2001, Professor Ogundiran, as an Exchange Scholar on an NIH Medical Bioinformatics Grant, attended a fall semester academic program with MSc students in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Department of Biometry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA. 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. Furthermore, he obtained a Certificate in Epidemiology & Global Health from the University of Dundee, UK in 2010, and the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2011.
Professor Ogundiran received further academic and clinical 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), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) mentoring in Oncology at Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Newark, Delaware, USA (2006); Cancer Molecular Biology training at the Cancer Signalling Unit, Department of Clinical Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2007); the Wellcome Trust’s Advanced Course on Genomic Epidemiology in Africa, at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya (2010); and Breast Cancer Clinical Observer program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York City, USA (2013).
Following surgical residency training at the UCH, Ibadan, Professor Ogundiran worked as a locum General Surgeon at St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital, Oluyoro, Ibadan, Okin Private Hospital Osogbo, and Molly Medical Centre, Idi Ape, Ibadan between March 1997 and January 1998. He thereafter had a brief stint as Consultant General Surgeon with the Oyo State Health Management Board at State Hospital, Ogbomoso. He was appointed Lecturer 1 in Surgery in the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and a Consultant General Surgeon at the UCH, Ibadan effective from April 1, 1998. He rose to become Senior Lecturer in 2002 and Professor of Surgery in October 2014.
Prof Ogundiran wears many caps in Surgery, Oncology and Bioethics. He is involved in clinical, epidemiological and genetic research. His clinical activities have spanned almost three decades at the UCH Ibadan where he has devoted his surgical career to cancer care and research. For many years to date, he has headed a busy general surgery/surgical oncology division in Ibadan. This unit has provided clinical services to many breast cancer patients at various stages of the disease trajectory. His research focus is on genetics of breast cancer in Blacks, and in collaboration with Professor Olufunmilayo Olopade of the University of Chicago and Professor Clement A. Adebamowo, presently of the University of Maryland. Their research engagements have explored the roles of genetics and environmental factors in breast-cancer risk in Nigerian women and in women of African ancestry. This collaboration has produced a breast cancer risk-prediction model for Sub-Sahara Africa that can identify high-risk individuals for further targeted screening and follow-up. He has also collaborated in cross-cultural study of informed consent in breast cancer patients in the US and Nigeria. His cancer research collaboration with the University of Maryland included the African Female Breast Cancer Epidemiology (AFBRECANE) project and the Point of Care Diagnostic test for Molecular Subtyping of Breast Cancer (PoCBreCa) Study. He has also recently commenced an environmental and genetic epidemiology study of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) with the goal to accomplish for STS what his research collaboration has achieved in breast cancer.
After receiving a Master of Health Science degree in Bioethics in 2004, Professor Ogundiran became a foundation member of the West African Bioethics (WAB) Training Program, an NIH-funded initiative of his mentor, Professor CA Adebamowo. The programme was based in the
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. The WAB, now known as the Center for Bioethics and Research, Nigeria, established a postgraduate programme (MSc/M.Phil. /PhD) in Bioethics in 2007 in the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, from which many students have graduated with MSc degree in Bioethics. Professor Ogundiran was the Academic Director of the program from inception until it metamorphosed into
the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Furthermore, he has been actively engaged in promoting awareness and developing manpower in Bioethics, Research Ethics and lately,
Responsible Conduct of Research, in Nigeria and West Africa through teaching, lectures, workshops, hybrid online/in-person courses and by administering the first graduate bioethics program in the West African subregion.
As a scholar and academic surgeon, Professor Ogundiran has contributed to 10 chapters in books, more than 120 peer reviewed articles, and many other commissioned and non-commissioned academic writings. As at the time of this release, he has a Google Scholar citation of 5,061, h-index of 37 and i10-index of 69. He has attended over 80 scientific conferences at home and abroad, given more than 100 presentations in scientific conferences and workshops, and delivered 26 public health and cancer awareness lectures in markets, religious centres, local government headquarters, and other public places. He has supervised research projects of four undergraduate students, 14 Masters, co-supervised 4 PhDs, supervised 10 Fellowships dissertations, and has contributed to the training of 21 full-fledged General Surgeons. He has been involved in 12 completed research grant supports as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-Investigator. He currently holds 4 active research grants support either as MPI or PI, they include; Bridging Gaps in the ELSI of Data Science Health Research in Nigeria (BridgELSI) and Genetic and Environmental Factors for Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Nigeria.
In addition, Professor Ogundiran has served in administrative positions in the University of Ibadan and at the UCH Ibadan. He was the pioneer coordinator of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for undergraduate students in the Department of Surgery (2000-2002); Member, Postgraduate Committee, Department of Surgery, University of Ibadan (2005); Representative of Head of Surgery at the Postgraduate School Board, University of Ibadan (2005-2009); and Member, Joint University of Ibadan/University College Hospital Institutional Review Committee (2004 to 2010, 2012 to 2017). Moreover, he served as Director, Surgeons in Training Education Programme (STEP) Course of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan (2010-2012) and as Member, Clinical Ethics Committee, University College Hospital, from August 2011. He is the current Chairman of the Cancer Management Committee of the UCH, Ibadan. In November 2020, he assumed Headship of the newly created Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Faculty of Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Ibadan. He held this position until August 1, 2022, when he became the Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences in the College of Medicine. While still in the saddle as the Dean of Clinical Sciences, he was elected as the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan from August 1, 2024 for a four-year term.
Professor Ogundiran has rendered academic and professional services beyond the University of Ibadan. He has been and still is an external examiner at the final Surgery examinations of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, University of Buea, Cameroon, and University of Sierra Leone. He was an external examiner at the postgraduate surgery examinations of the University of Zimbabwe from 2020 to 2022. For many years till date, he has examined at the Membership (Part 1) and Fellowship (Part 2) examinations of the West African College of Surgeons. He was a member of Council of the West African College of Surgeons from 2021 to 2023. He was World Health Organization/World Bank Visiting Professor/Consultant to the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone and University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospital Complex, from June 2017 to December 2019.
To date, Professor Ogundiran has received at least 19 scholarships, awards and fellowships including Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)’s International Cancer Research Technology Transfer (ICRETT) Fellowship, Roche Travel Grant, Wellcome Trust Bursary, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals Fellowship, American Cancer Society Scholarship, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)’s International Development and Educational Award (IDEA), Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Sponsorship, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) Sponsorship, and the University of Ibadan MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
He has also received many academic and professional honours. He was co-winner of the 2018 Nigerian Academy of Science Gold Medal Prize in Life Sciences. He delivered the 9th Victor Anomah Ngu Lecture, a prestigious competitive bi-annual lecture of the West African College of Surgeons, at the College’s 59th Annual Scientific Conference in Dakar, Senegal, in January 2019. Since 2010, he has been a Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada. In 2021, he was named a Foundation Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria. In May, 2024, he was inducted a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
Professor Ogundiran has also served on many local and international academic and professional bodies and committees. These include 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; Joint UI/UCH Ibadan Research Ethics Committee; WHO’s World Alliance for Patient Safety; European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) Steering Committee for strengthening of the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Research Committee. He was WHO Consultant to the Sierra Leone Council of Postgraduate Colleges of Health Specialists on Accreditation for Surgery Specialist Training, and Member, Planning Committee for Kola Daisi University Medical School and the MBBS Degree Programme of the College of Health Sciences, Caleb University.
At various times, he was appointed a member of the Editorial Committee of some academic journals, viz: Journal of Clinical Oncology (of ASCO), African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Cancer Epidemiology & Prevention, and Annals of Breast Diseases. Professor Ogundiran belongs to many academic and professional societies at home and abroad, including the West African College of Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, American College of Surgeons, African Society of Human Genetics, Society of Oncology and Cancer Research of Nigeria (SOCRON), American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the African Organisation for Research & Training in Cancer (AORTIC).
As hobbies, Professor Ogundiran loves hunting games, driving, and travelling.
Professor Ogundiran grew up in a Baptist family. In his final secondary school year (1975/76), he became “an SU”, attending the Scripture Union. He later joined the Maranatha Evangelical Christian Ministry which eventually merged with the Deeper Christian Life Ministry and the Deeper Life Bible Church in 1988.
He is happily married to Mary Bosede Ogundiran (Nee Babayemi), a Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan. They are blessed with children.
He takes over from Professor Olayinka O. Omigbodun, FAS, FNAMed, FAMedS as the 13th Provost of the College.
A.E. Odedele, MCIPM
Deputy Registrar and Secretary to the College,
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.