{"id":17089,"date":"2017-03-23T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17089"},"modified":"2017-12-13T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:25:27","slug":"nwokolo-professor-chukwuedu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nwokolo-professor-chukwuedu\/","title":{"rendered":"NWOKOLO, Prof. Chukwuedu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>physician, born in April, 1927, Oraifite, Anambra State; married Njideka Okonkwo 1954, three sons, four daughters; Education: Government College, Umuahia, 1934-39, Higher College, Yaba. 1940-42, School of Medicine of Nigeria. Ibadan, 1943-47, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1952-53, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 1963-64; appointed Specialist Physician, Nigerian Civil Service, 1956-63; Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, 1963-65; associate Professor of Medicine and associate Dean of Medicine, University of Ibadan, 1965-67; associate Pro fessor and Head, Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, 1967-71; appointed Professor of Medicine, 1971-80: Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UNN, Enugu Campus, 1972-75; Director and Chief Physician, National Medical Clinic, Enugu. since 1980; Chairman, National Advisory Committee on Medical Research (NSTDA), 1978-80; Chairman, Board of National In stitute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, 1978-80; Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, since 1987; Vice-President and later Chairman. (Nigerian Chapter), West African College of Physicians, 1977-81; member, Royal College of Surgeons, UK, 1951; member. Royal Col lege of Physicians, Edinburgh; fellow. Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; member, British Medical Association, 1951-60; member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1960-67; Na tional Honours: awarded Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; recipient Nigerian National Merit Award, 1982; Hobbies: reading, electronics, photography; Of ficial Address: National Medical Clinic, 1 River Close, GRA, PO Box 2567, Enugu, Anambra State; Telephone: (042) 256414.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17089","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17089","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\/17089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}