{"id":9847,"date":"2017-02-07T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9847"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T09:48:52","slug":"ezilo-prof-gabriel-chukwujekwu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ezilo-prof-gabriel-chukwujekwu\/","title":{"rendered":"EZILO, prof Gabriel Chukwujekwu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Sunday (Orie) 3rd November, 1935 State of Origin: Anambra Village\/Town: Nanka Professor Gabriel Chukwujekwu Ezilo, MB, BS, MSc, is a renowned Medical doctor in the micro-area of physiology and a top academic who has made a new inroad and breakthrough in the discipline. He is a Teacher and Trainer of doctors and has through that contributed a lot to the saving of life and developmentof human society and civilisation. He is indeed known for his human touch, a man who made loving impression on humanity. He saw human beings as objects that need life and should be given life. He encouraged numerous doctors who passed through him to concentrate on the Mission of Life Saving Education \u2022 Dennis Memorial Grammar School ( DMGS) Onitsha 1949 1953 \u2022 Nigerian College ofArts of Science and Technology Ibadan 1954 1956 \u2022 University College Ibadan 1956 1961 \u2022 University of Rochester, New York USA 1966- 1967 Work Experience \u2022 House Officer, Surgery, Paediatrics, University College Hospital Ibadan 1962 \u2022 Snr House Officer, Medicine, University Teaching Hospital Lagos 1963 \u2022 Clinical Assistant, Stobhill Hospital Glasgow and Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1964 1965 \u2022 Registrar, Robroston Hospital Glasgow 1964 \u2022 Lecturer and Acting Head, Dept of Physiology , University ofZambia 1967 1969 \u2022 Snr. Lecturer and Head of Dept of Physiology, University ofZambia 1969-1971 \u2022 Professor of Physiology, University ofZambia, 1971-1975 \u2022 Dean ofthe School of Medicine, University ofZambia 1973 1975 \u2022 Professor and Head of Department of Physiology, University ofNigeria, 1975 \u2022 Has made enormous contributions to Senate, Faculty and DepartmentalCommittees of the Universities inAfrica and Europe. External examiner to many universities. Director of units and boards. Consultant to several bodies and organisations. Membership of Professional Bodies \u2022 Member, Association of Physicians of East Africa \u2022 Member, Association of Basic Medical Scientist ofAfrica, \u2022 Member, Nigeria Medical Association \u2022 Many other professional organisations in UK, USA Publications \u2022 Many publications in learned and professional journals and magazines of the Medical World. Made many presentations in conferences, seminars, workshops etc. Has supervised many postgraduate medical students. His hobby include playing Piano, Cine Photography He is married to Benice Nwakego Onuzulike and blessed with three children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,174],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9847","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9847","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}