{"id":7655,"date":"2017-01-12T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7655"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:17:24","slug":"obi-professor-james-oseloka","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obi-professor-james-oseloka\/","title":{"rendered":"OBI, Professor James Oseloka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MB, Ch.B, BAO, MD, Paediatrician, born January 23, 1934. Asaba, Bendel State; married Justina Onochie 1962, three sons, two daughters; Education: Government College, Ibadan, 1949-53, Skerry&#8217;s College, Edinburgh. 1956-57, University College, Dublin, 1957-63; Paediatrician and Head, Department of Paediatrics, Specialist Hospital, Benin City, 1971; Consultant, Child Health, since 1971; Lecturer, Child Health, University of Benin, 1971-76; Senior Lecturer, University of Benin, 1976-79; associate Professor, 1979-81; ap pointed Professor of Child Health, University of Benin. 1981; Visiting Physician. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. 1982; Head, Department of Child Health and Direc tor, Institute of Child Health, University of Benin, 1983-86; Medical Consultant and Ad viser to Botswana Government, SeptemberNovember 1985; Trustee. Chief Sunny Odogwu Educational Endownmcn!Fund. Asaba, since 1986; Honorary Consultant, African Health Consultancy Services, 1987; Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholar, 1966-68; Ciba-Geigv Travelling Fellowship, 1982; Pfizer Travelling Fellowship, 1982; member. Japanese Society of Child Neurology; member. International College of Paediatrics, 1975; fellow, Nigerian Medical College of Paediatrics, 1975: fellow. West African College of Physicians, 1975, fellow, International College of Paediatrics, 1983; Executive Council member, Common wealth Association for the Mentally Retarded and Developmental Disabilities, 1985; Chair man for Developing Countries, International College of Paediatrics, 1987; Traditional Title: Ogbueshi Akwukwochukwude of Asaba; Decoration: Justice of Peace, 1987; Hobbies: football, cricket, reading, travelling; Official Address: Institute of Child Health, University of Benin. Benin City; Telephone: (052) 200214 extension 4190; Home: Quarter B12, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Bendel State;Telephone: (052)242268, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7655","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7655","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\/7655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}