{"id":13777,"date":"2017-03-03T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13777"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:37:36","slug":"ighodaro-dr-irene-elizabeth-beatrice","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ighodaro-dr-irene-elizabeth-beatrice\/","title":{"rendered":"IGHODARO, Dr. Irene Elizabeth Beatrice"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MB, BS, physician, born May 16, 1916, Free town, Sierra Leone; married Samuel Osarogie Ighodaro 1947, three sons, one daughter; Education: Government Model Primary School, Freetown, 1928, The Annie Walsh Memorial School, Freetown. Sierra Leone, 1929-32, King&#8217;s College, Newcastlc-Upon- Tyne, University of Durham, 1938-44; House Officer, Victoria Infirmary, 1944-45; General Medical Practitioner, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, 1945-46, Houseman, New Sussex Hospital, 1947; General Practitioner, East Croydon, Sussex, 1947-49; Private General Medical Practitioner, Benin City, 1950-52, Ibadan, 1952-67, and Benin City, since 1968; First Chairman, University of Benin Teaching Hospital Management Board, Benin City, 1971-75; first Chairman, Board of Governors, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, 1974-75; former member, University of Benin Council; member, Governing Council, Univer sity of Lagos, 1975-79; member. Board of Governors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, 1975-79; Consultant, World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva and Brazzaville; fellow, Nigerian Medical College of General Medical Practice, 1971; Political Party: member, defunct Action Group Party; member. World Young Women Christian Association (YMCA); Executive member, 1959-71; Vice President, YMCA; member, Educational and Cultural Committee, Interna tional federation of University Women; Foun dation fellow, Nigerian Medical Council; Foreign Honour: Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), 1958; Publications: Baby&#8217;s First Year, (Glasgow, Collins, 1966); Women in A Man&#8217;s World (The Life and Times of One of Africa&#8217;s Oldest Women Doc tors); Hobbies: reading, writing, gardening, music, travelling; Official Address: PO Box 499, 62 Boundary Road, GRA, Benin City, Bendel State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13777","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13777","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\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19451,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13777\/revisions\/19451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}