Professor Fatiu Abiola Arogundade
Professor Fatiu Abiola Arogundade
Professor Fatiu Arogundade is the College Registrar of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and immediate past President of Transplant Association of Nigeria, member of Executive committee and Council of International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and Chair of the African Regional Board.
He was past Secretary and President of Nigerian Association of Nephrology; Secretary/Treasurer, African Association of Nephrology. He was Chairman/Chief Examiner of the Faculty of Internal Medicine, and member of Governing Board of NPMCN (2018-2021). He had his basic medical degree from the University of Lagos and postgraduate training at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife. He is a Fellow of Medical College in Physic (FMCP), West African College of Physicians (FWACP), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPEdin), Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP), Nigeria Academy of Medicine (FNAMed) and Nigerian Association of Nephrology (FNAN), He has Doctor of Medicine (MD). He served as Vice-Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, OAU, 2011-2013.
His research interests are in general nephrology and renal replacement therapies. He studied the aetiopathogenesis, epidemiology, survival and quality of life in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). He was the coordinator of the kidney transplant-KT- team of OAUTHC which performed the first KT in any public institution in Nigeria in 2002. His research interests are in defining the roles of MYH9 and APOL 1 gene polymorphisms in kidney disease. For his studies, he had and 5 grants including NIH Sponsored Human Heredity and Health (H3) Africa Study of Kidney Disease and H3 Africa Cohort Study.
He has 115 publications in peer-reviewed journals including 7 chapters in books ((Citations-4083, h-index-28, i10-index-44. He has supervised 32 fellowship and 3 MSc dissertations/Theses. He is an external Examiner to several universities and has served on accreditation panels for NPMCN and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. He is happily married with children.