Diaku-Akinwumi Ijeoma

Associate Professor of Paediatrics and child health in a leading African University and Consultant Paediatric Haematologist in a progressive, metropolitan public teaching Hospital. Experienced in teaching, clinical skills transfer, training and evaluation of medical students and Paediatricians. Postgraduate Examiner in the faculty of Paediatrics of the National postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. Clinical lead of a busy, metropolitan, public paediatric haematology-oncology unit. Resource person to the Lagos State Government’s Ministry of Health in technical working groups to produce 5 policy documents and for paediatric sickle cell disease control, management, newborn screening programme and treatment protocol development. Site lead for African Research and Innovative Initiative for Sickle Cell Education (ARISE project) and Sickle Pan-Africa Research Consortium – Nigeria Network. Founder and chairperson, Early Rescue Initiative. Working to improve sickle cell disease outcome in Nigeria, since 2007.