{"id":14383,"date":"2017-03-08T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14383"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:10:18","slug":"onuaguluchi-professor-gilbert-obiafo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/onuaguluchi-professor-gilbert-obiafo\/","title":{"rendered":"ONUAGULUCHI, Prof. Gilbert Obiafo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc, Ph.D, physician, university teacher, administrator, bomJanuary 1,1927, Awgu, Enugu State; married Esther Aneniyagh Gundu 1956, one son, four daugh ters; Education: Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1941-44, Higher College, Yaba, Lagos, 1945-56, Medical School, Yaba, Lagos, 1947-48, University College Ibadan, 1949-51, Institute of Chest Disease, London University, 1956; University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1959-61; Career: Ap pointed Medical Officer, Northern Region of Nigeria, 1951-58; Research Assistant and Medical Registrar, Stobhill General Hospi tal, Glasgow, 1959-62; Senior Lecturer, Uni versity of Ibadan, 1962-65; Honorary Con sultant Physician, University College Hos pital, Ibadan, 1962-66; appointed Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Univer sity of Ibadan, 1965-66; Honorary Consult ant Physician, University ofNigeria Teach ing Hospital, since 1967; Dean ofMedicine, Faculty ofMedicine, University ofNigeria Medical School, 196^-72; Pioneer Vice- Chancellor, University ofJos, 1975-78; Pro fessor and Head, Department of Pharmacol ogy and Therapeutics, University ofNige ria, Enugu Campus, since 1967-97; ap pointed Professor ofMedicine, Ebonyi State University, 1999-date; member, Royal Col lege of Surgeons, 1956; member, Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow, 1959; mem ber, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1960; fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow, 1972; fellow, Royal College of. Physicians, Edinburgh, 1972; Foundation fellow, Nigerian Medical Council of Physicians, 1970; Treasurer, Association of Physicians of West Africa, 1962-66; President, West African Society for Pharmacology, 1971-77; Vice-President, Union of African Society for Pharmacology, 1980-87 and its President, since 1987; member, West Afri can College of Physicians; member, American Association for the Advancement of Science; member, New York Academy ofSci ences; Publications: Parkinsonism, Butterworth, London, 1964; Giant in Turbu lent Storms &#8211; The Story of Nigeria, 1944- 87; Vantage Press, New York, 1990; Hobbies: armchair politics, gardening, general reading. Official Address: College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Enugu State&#8217;. Home: 2, Braithwaite Close, Enugu Campus, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Enugu State. Telephone: 042-451925.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,749,1505,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14383","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-administrator","category-educationist","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14383","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}