{"id":14516,"date":"2017-03-08T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14516"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:03:14","slug":"ikede-professor-basil-orioghac","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ikede-professor-basil-orioghac\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEDE Prof. Basil Orioghac"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mead, Department of Veterinary Pathology. University of Ibadan; born July 1942 at Bethel Oycdc, Isoko Local Government Area. Ben del State; Schools attended: C.M.S. School. Bethel 1950-55; African Church School, Forcados, 1956; Urhobo College, Effurun, Warri &#8211; 1957-61; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1962-67; University of Ibadan, 1967-72; University of Guelph, Onta rio. Canada \u2022\u2022 1970-71; Qualifica tions: D.V.M. (ABU), B. Vet. Med., Ph. D. Cert. Immunology (Ibadan); Dip. Diagn. Pathology (Guelph); Awards Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Health Prize; Won University of Ibadan Scholarship, the faculty prize and the Coomassie Prize; Ca reer: Joined University of Ibadan Staff as a Rockefeller foundation Research Fellow in 1967 and rose to the rank of Professor of Veteri nary Pathology in 1977 and Head of Department in 1979; Publica tion: published over 50 scientific publications in learned Journals including a detailed monograph on the pathology of Animal Trypa nosomiasis. Two of these papers won him the C. L. Davis Founda tion Award (U.S.A.) for tiie advan cement of Veterinary Pathology in 1973; Clubs and other associations: member of the first World Health Organisation&#8217;s Scientific working group on African Trypanosomiasis and currently a member of some na tional and international science orga nisations; Editor-in-Chief of Tropi cal Veterinary a new interntional Journal, and a member of the inter national editorial boards of two other Journals; served as Senior visiting fellow at the Brunei Univer sity, Middlex, U.K. and as a visiting Professor at the University of Guelph Ontario, Canada and at the Univer sity of California, Davis, U.S.A. Mar ried with four children; Hobbies&#8217;: Lawn tennis, swimming, walking, photography and Christian Evange lism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14516","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14516","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\/14516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19525,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14516\/revisions\/19525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}