{"id":10157,"date":"2017-02-09T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10157"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:57:24","slug":"gadzama-dr-elizabeth-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gadzama-dr-elizabeth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GADZAMA, Dr. Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, DVM, MV.Sc, veterinary surgeon, born November 23,1950; married in 1973, two sons, two daughters; Education: Government Girls&#8217; College, Kano, 1964-68, Queen&#8217;s College, Lagos, 1969-70, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1971-76, University ofLiverpool, UK, 1981; Career: Appointed Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Ahmadu Bello Univer sity and University of Maiduguri, 1977-79; appointed Commissioner for Health, Borno State, 1985-89; appointed Senior Lecturer, Department ofVeterinary Medicine, Univer sity ofMaiduguri, since 1985; Former Head, Department ofVeterinary Medicine, Univer sity of Maiduguri; Former Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri; appointed Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine, 1989; Former Direc tor, VeterinaryTeaching Hospital, University of Maiduguri; Former Director General, Women&#8217;s Commission, Bomo State; Man aging Director, Vetagric Nigeria Limited; 1st Veterinary Surgeon ofthe Northern States of Nigeria, Chairman, Hospital Management Board, Borno State; Member, Governing Council, Ramat Polytechnic; Executive Sec retary, Economic Commission of Africa, On Gender, Peace and Women Development in Africa; Chairman, Borno State Sanitation Board; Member, Board of Trustees, Urban Development Bank Forum; Member, Board of Trustee, Family Support Programme, Borno State; Member, African Women Com mittee On Peace and Development, OAU; President, National Council of Women So cieties, Borno State, 1985-98; Founding President, Associationof Women in Poverty Alleviation; Founding President, Third World Organisation of Women in Science; Honour\/Awards: Winner, Silver Medal in International Children&#8217;s Fine Art, Japan, 1966; Recipient, Fulbright Award, USA, 1986; Recipient, Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of Veterinary Medicine in Nigeria, 1985; recipient, Na tional Council of Women Societies Merit Award for Contribution to the Development of Women, 1996; Publication: Who&#8217;s Who Among Women in the NorthEast ofNigeria, Edited by Gadzama E. Hobbies: reading, needle work, table tennis; Official Address: Vetagric Nigeria Limited, Kasuwan Shanu Road, PO Box 1000, Maiduguri, Borno State; Telephone: 234-076-235937, 231732, 342707; Fax: 234-076-231732.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10157","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}