Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh

Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh (October 4, 1933 – October 5, 1997) was a Nigerian physician, educational administrator and former Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos Nigeria.[1] He was a professor of Chemical pathology.[2][3]

Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh
Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos
In office November 1978 – 1980
Succeeded by	Akinpelu Oludele Adesola
Personal details
Born	October 4, 1933 Lagos State, Nigeria
Died	October 5, 1997(1997-10-05) (aged 64)
Political party	Non-Partisan

Early life

He was born in Lagos, Nigeria to a Ghanaian father (Julius Gordon Kwasi Adadevoh)[4][5] and a Nigerian mother (Sarah Abigail Idowu Macaulay, the daughter of Herbert Macaulay who was regarded as the founder of Nigerian anti-colonial politics.)[6][7]

Education

Babatunde Kwaku attended Baptist Academy, Lagos and Igbobi College, Lagos state Nigeria. He studied medicine at the premier University of Ibadan college of medicine and the University of Birmingham. He also attended the postgraduate medical school and the Hammersmith hospital in London.[8]

Career

He began his career in a general hospital in Birmingham. He worked as a physician at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the Hammersmith hospital in London, where he was a house physician to Thomas Russell Cumming Fraser. [9] He was a research fellow for two years at Harvard medical school and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston before he returned to Nigeria as a senior lecturer in medicine at the University of Lagos. He became a professor in 1968 at the University of Ibadan. He was the first director of medical research and secretary to the Medical Research Council of Nigeria.[10] He was appointed as the vice chancellor of the University of Lagos in 1978 until he was succeeded by Akin O. Adesola in 1980. He was the first editor-in-chief of the Nigerian journal of medical sciences and also a former secretary to the Nigeria Medical Council Board in Medicine.[4]

Personal life

Babatunde Kwaku was the father of the late Dr. Stella Shade Ameyo Adadevoh who was responsible for treating and containing Nigeria's Ebola virus index case, the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.[11][12] [13]

References

1. "When Unilag floated World Carnival to mark Golden Jubilee". Vanguard News. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
2. The Abnormal Haemoglobins Reproduction and Family Planning. 1985.
3. "Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh | RCP Museum". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
4. "Munks Roll Details for Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
5. "The Life History of Nigerian-Ghanaian doctor Ameyo Stella Adadevoh killed by Ebola virus in Lagos". NaijaGists. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
6. "Macaulay Family:Index of Individuals". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
7. "Families And Friends Grieve At Farewell Service For Stella Adadevoh". Encomium Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
8. "Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
9. "Munks Roll, Volume XII: Details for Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh".
10. "Adadevoh, B. Kwaku". Library of Congress.
11. "Ebola Tragedy: Complete Story Of Late Stella Adadevoh Who Treated Patrick Sawyer …Body To Be Cremated Soon". Retrieved 6 October 2014.
12. "Ebola Strikes At The Heart Of Nigeria…Ameyo, Daughter of Kwaku Adadevoh, Great Grand Daughter of Herbert Macaulay, Dies, Articles - THISDAY LIVE". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
13. Gulland, Anne (2014-12-16). "Ameyo Adadevoh". BMJ. 349. doi:10.1136/bmj.g7558. ISSN 1756-1833.

See also

• Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
• List of vice chancellors in Nigeria
• Akinpelu Oludele Adesola
• Dr Stella Shade Ameyo Adedevoh