{"id":8678,"date":"2017-01-24T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8678"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T11:18:06","slug":"ogbonnaya-dr-joshua-chingozi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ogbonnaya-dr-joshua-chingozi\/","title":{"rendered":"OGBONNAYA, (Dr) Joshua Chingozi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical practitioner, Medical Director and Consultant Surgeon, St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital, Umuahia, Imo State; Born: April 20, 1936 at Umuahia- lbeku; Education: St. Michael&#8217;s School, Aba, 1942-48; Okongwu Memorial Grammar School, Nnewi, 1949-53; University College Ibadan, 1955-62; Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln Inn Fields, London, 1966- 67; graduated MB., BS., was registrar. Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1964; senior Urological House Surgeon, Hammersmith Postgraduate Hospital, London, 1967-68; senior house surgeon St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital Surgical Unit, London, 1968-69; resident surgeon, Guest Hospital, Dudley, England, 1969-70; senior urological registrar, University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1970-71; appointed medical superintendent and chief surgeon. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Umuahia, 1971-72, thereafter founded his present hospital, is Fellow Royal College of Surgeons (England and Edingburgh) from 1968; fellow. International College of Surgeons from 1973; Married and has three children; Address (Home): 38, Ojike Street, Umuahia; Telephone: 427; (Office): St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital, 74, School Road, P.O. Box 550, Umuahia, Imo State; Telephone: 428; Hobby: lawn tennis, golf, music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8678","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8678","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\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}