Adegoke Gbadegesin FALADE,

University Lecturer, Paediatrician, Consultant

MBBS;universityteacher, consultant paediatrician; b:April 25,1955;ed: University oflbadanMedical School, 1978; 1999; Nigerian Postgraduate Medical College, 1988; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2008; en Lecturer/Consultant Paediatrician, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-lwoye/Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, 1989-90; Consultant Paediatrician, Oni Memorial Children's Hospital, Ibadan, 1990; Research Clinician, Medical Research Council Uboratory, Fajara, The Gambia, I990r92; Ucturer I/Consultant PaedtatricianColl^ofMedk»neUniversityonbadanandUniversityColk^e Hospital, Ibf «etectionofStr^^ in blood cultures byPCR, Journal ofClinical Microbiology, 1994; co-author, Bacterial Isolatesfrom bloodandlungaspirate culturesinGambia children with lobar pneumonia, Annals ofTropical Paediatrics, 1997; co-author, RespiratoryrateasaPredictorofPositive LungAspirate inYoungGambian Children with lobarpneumonia. Annals ofTropical Paediatrics, 2001; co author, Use ofSimpleCiinkxlSignstoPredictPneumoniainyoungGambian children: theInfluence of malnutrition, BulletinofWorld Health Organization, 1995;co-author. Invasive PneumococcalDisease inchildrenageg\$5years admitted to3 Urban Hospitals inIbadan, ClinicalInfecliqmDjmses 48, Supplement, 2009; co-author, The time ofdirectlyobsery&tlwsw&pee* forcaution. The International Joumai of Tuberculpsi^amlLun&Riseases, 1999; co-author, Risk FactorsforLoyvSeruwItyfnQlmtfigefWfitiilpten, Journal ofTropical Paediatrics, 2000; co-author*,^