{"id":9571,"date":"2017-02-04T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9571"},"modified":"2017-04-12T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T11:50:02","slug":"chizea-dr-dora-obiajulu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/chizea-dr-dora-obiajulu\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIZEA, Dr. Dora Obiajulu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, B.Sc, M.D, physician, born September 7, 1946, Asaba, Delta State; married Rowland Abuab 1974, two sons; Education: St Peter&#8217;s Pri mary School, Bukuru, Plateau State, Holy Trinity School, Asaba, 1952-57, St Williams School, Oke-Ado, Ibadan, 1958, Queen&#8217;s School, Ede, 1959-63, 1964-65, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA, 1965-69, School ofMedicine, Temple Uni versity, Philadelphia, USA, 1969-73; English Instructor (Summer), Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, USA, 1969; Ca reer: Appointed Instructor in Infectious Dis eases and Preventive Medicine, in Develop ing Countries(Summers), Washington Uni versity, St, Louis, Missouri, 1976; Assistant College Physician, Bryn Mawr College In firmary, 1974-77; Supervisor, Adult and Pae diatric Medicine,Comprehensive Health Ser vicesPlanIncorporation, Philadelphia, 1976- 77; Clinical Instructor in Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1976-78; mem ber, Faculty of Staff,TempleUniversity Hos pital, Philadelphia, 1976-78; Director, Medi cal and Ancillary Health Care Services, Com prehensive Health Services Plan Incorpora tion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1977-78; Director of Medical Services, Bomec Medi cal Clinic, Ikeja, since 1979;Consultant Phy sician, Durbar Hotel, Lagos, since 1982; Director (Medical), Charity International Movement Preventive Health Unit, since 1987; President, African Environmental As sociation, Nairobi, Kenya, 1971-77; mem ber, American Medical Association, since 1973; member, South-Western Pennsylvanian Country Medical Society, since 1973; member, American Women Medical Asso ciation, since 1974; member, National As sociation of Medical Directors, USA, since 1977; member, American College of Physi cians, 1977; President, Soroptimist Interna tionalof Ikeja; FirstVice-President, National Council ofNigeriaSoroptimist International; Adviser, Committee on Human Rights, Soroptimist International ofGreat Britain and Ireland, since 1985; Awards: Best Black Student in Medicine Award by National Medical Association, USA, 1971, Educators to Africa Award, Philadelphia, 1972; Dis-. tinguished Scholar, FirstOne Hundred Year Award, Bryn Mawr College Centennial, 1985, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of, Nigeria Award by Jaycee International 1985; Nigerian Outstanding Young Persons Award, 1987; Publications: Streams and River of Blood: War Poems on Biafra, Connecticut Publishers, 1969; Problems in Environment And Development: Population andAfrica, Bryn Mawr, Quick Silver Press, 1974; Your Own Health Series: Living With Hyperten sion in Nigeria, Lagos, Dora Chizea Publi cation, 1986; Obesity: Nigeria&#8217;s Disease of Tomorrow, Lagos, DoraChizeaPublication, 1987; Editor, Selected Topics On National Health, Lagos, 1987; Hobbies: sports, mu sic, reading; writing; Official Address: Bomec Medical Clinic, 1, Bomec Com pound, PO Box 948, Ikeja, Lagos; Tele phone: 01-932458, 884111 extension 1045. Home: 1, Oyedele Street, Akiode Village, PO Box 948, Ikeja, Lagos State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9571","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9571","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\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}