{"id":6325,"date":"2016-11-11T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=6325"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:55:49","slug":"andy-professor-joseph-j","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/andy-professor-joseph-j\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDY, Prof Joseph J."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> MB, BS, phy sician, university teacher, born August 8, 1942, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State; married Emeng Ikon 1970, one son, one daughter; Education: Offot Jubilee School, Uyo, 1943-55, Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, 1963-68, Howard University Hos pital, Washington, D.C, USA, 1970-74; Ca reer: Appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, Howard University, USA, 1974- 76; Lecturer, University of Ife (nowObafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, 1976-77; Se nior Lecturer, 1977-82; appointed Professor of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1982-84; Vice-Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo Univer sity, 1983-84; Professor and Head, Depart ment of Medicine, University of Calabar, since 1984; Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sci ences, College of Medical Sciences, Univer sity of Calabar, 1984-87; Diplomate, Ameri can Board of Internal Medicine, 1973; asso ciate member, International College of Car diology, 1977;fellow, WestAfrican College of Physicians, 1984; Vice-President, Nige rian Cardiac Society, 1986: member of Ex ecutive Committee, West African College of Physicians (Nigerian Chapter), 1987; Pub lication: Over 30 scientific articles on car diac diseases in learned journals: Hobbies: reading,cultural anthropology; Official Ad dress: Departmentof Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar; Publications: Towards ASociology of African Literature, Zim Books, 1986; The Theory of African Literature, Zed Books, 1988; Hobbies: music, reading. Home: House 7, Permanent Site, University of Jos, Plateau State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-6325","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/6325","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\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}