Chimele Usnwa ABENGOWE

Biographical record

Title

Dr

Surname

ABENGOWE

First Name

Chimele

Other Names

Usnwa

Gender

Male

Source of Publication

NIBC Who's Who (3rd Edition)

Date of Birth

Tuesday, October 16, 1928

Status

Alive

Place of Birth

Umuakwu; Isiala-Ngwa North LGA, Abia State

Father's Status

N/A

Mother's Status

N/A

Marital Status

Single

Names of Children

Seven children

Profession

Medical Practitioner,
University Lecturer
Administrator

Education Level

Tertiary

Schools Attended with Dates

R.Cath.Prim. Sch, Mbawsi, 1933-34; Method Demonstration Sch.,Uzuakoli, 1935-39; Govt. Middle.Sch.Owerri,194TMI; Kings College, Lagos, 1948-49; Higher Coll. Yaba, 1947-48; Univ.College, Ibadan, 1948-49; Cambridge Univ. Engl.,1949-56; St. Thom. Hosp.London

Educational Qualification

B.A, M.A, MBBS, FWACP, FRCP, FMCO, FICA;

Academic Honours

Science Prize of the Year, Kings College Lagos, 1946; Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship Award to Higher College, Yaba, 1947; British Common wealth Medical Postgraduate Scholarship Award to UK, 1963-64; Universities College Hospital, Ibadan Postgraduate Scholarship Award, UK, 1964-65;

Previous Appointments

House Surgeon, Rush Green Hospital, Romoford, Essex, England, 1956; House Physician (Cardiac UnitX Royal Sussex Infirmary, Brighton Sussex, England, 1957; House Officer,Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital College (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria, 1957; Registrar, Paediatric Dept, UCH, Ibadan Unit 1959; Clinical Attachment (Registrar Level) in the Profession Unit of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Britol, England, 1961-62; Oxford,CardiologyTraining, England, 1963-65;.Consultant Physician and Cardiologist Government General Hospital, Port Harcourt, 1965-66; Consultant Physician and Cardiologist The Shell Delta Clinic, Port Harcourt, 1967-70; Consultant Physician and Cardiologist Red Cross Community Hospital, Carboneara, New Foundlanda, Canada, 1970-73; Asst. Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial, University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Canada, 1973-74; Visiting Cardiologist Dept of Cardiology, St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK, 1978-79; Asst. Dean, Faculty of Medicine, ABUTH, Kaduna, 1980-98; Reader, Faculty of Medicine, ABU, Zaria, 1978- 85; Professor of Medicine/Clinical Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1985-02; Head, Dept. of Medicine, ABUTH, Kaduna, since 1974; Chief Consultant Physician, Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital, 1978-02; (retirement) ch: Medical Advisory Committee, ABU Teaching Hospital, 1980-83; Association of Consultants of ABUTH Kaduna, 1985-87; Hospital Disciplinary Committee Orthopedic Hospital Dala Kano, 1985-89; Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee, ABU, Zaria, 1985-89; Deputy ck, National Orthopedic Hospital Management Board, 1981-89; First ch., Board of Management Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital, Abuja, 1994; mm: ABU Teaching Hospital Management Board, 1981-83; National Orthopaedic Hospital Management Board, Dala, Kano, 1989-94; Court of Examiners, Fellowship Examination of the Faculty Medical of Internal Medicine, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, since 1982; Court of Examiners, Fellowship Examination of the West African College of Physician, Faculty of Internal Medicine, 1979-2000; mm: Elected member, New York Academy of Scrences; Cambridge University Medical Association; Newfoundland (Canada) Medical Association, High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association, AHA;Council of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, AHA, High Blood Pressure Council, AHA; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, IPPNW; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Cambridge University Alumni;

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Awards and Honours

Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), 2000; Nigeria Cardiac Society, for the Meritorious Service to the Teaching and Practice of Cardiology, 2008; Meritorious Diamond Award,Corporate & Media African Communication Ltd., 2008;

Creative Work/Major Exhibitions

publ: Acute Emphysematous Cholesystittis. Canada Medicine Association Journal, 1974; Clinical Significance of Grossly Elevated Erthyrocyte Sedimentation Rate. Can J Med., 1974; Granulomaand Wgener's Gramulaomatiosis in Nigeria A Report of three cases. Tropical Doctor, 1977; Incidence of Hypertension in Ahmadu Bello University, Kaduna, Nigeria J. Trap. Med., 1977; Disease Pattern among University Students in Savanna Region of Nigeria. Public Health, London, 1978; Cardiovascular Disease in Northern Nigerian Geogr. Med 1979; etc; Journals: Editorial Boaix LWest Anican Jounid of Medicine (Journal of the West African Postgraduate Medical and Surgical ); The Typhoid Fever Enigma, The New Nigeria Newspaper, 1998; Cost of Anti hypertensive Therapy in Nigena,The Guaidian Newspaper, 1999; Rappoteur, First National Workshop of the National Health Policy for AH by 2000;

Hobbies

reading, music, the art theatre, art exhibitions, photography, gardening, philethely traveling, sport and field games;

Official Address

c/o Faculty of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State.