DAY 1 SPEAKERS-converted

9.30 hours WAT 19th November, 2020. DR OBIANUJU OZOH MBBS, FMCP Join the conference room by 9.30 am on Thursday for a comprehensive and interactive discuss on influenza by Dr Obianuju Ozoh, a pulmonologist and Senior lecturer at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and Consultant Physician at LUTH Lagos. In addition to her fellowship in pulmonology from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Dr Obianuju Ozoh obtained further clinical training and experience as a pulmonologist at the Tygerberg Academic Hospital, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa and from the sleep medicine program of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, USA. She is the co-director of PATS MECOR and editor in chief of Journal of the Pan African Thoracic Society. Her areas of research interest include airway diseases, pulmonary complications of respiratory exposures and chronic medical conditions as well as tobacco epidemiology and obstructive sleep apnea. She is committed to improving the practice of respiratory medicine in Nigeria through research, advocacy and capacity building. With her experience, her talk on Influenza promises to be impactful- Thursday, 19th November, 2020 by 9.30am. Plan to be there.

12.45 hours WAT 19th November, 2020. PROF. OSAWARU OVIAWE MEET OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER NTSC 2020 Prof Osawaru Oviawe is a paediatric pulmonologist of international repute. He is a fellow of both the West African College of Physicians and the National Postgraduate Medical college of Nigeria. Prof Osawaru had his subspecialty training in East Birmingham Hospital, Hospital for sick children (Great Ormond street Hospital), London and the Brampton hospital (The cardiothoracic Institute) London. Recently retired as an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Pulmonologist, UBTH, and Professor, Paediatrics and Child Health, he was the Pioneer head Paediatic Respiratory Medicine, UBTH, Benin City, Coordinator for centre of Paediatric Spirometry, UBTH by Pan Africa Thoracic Society and Pioneer head and coordinator, Child asthma and tuberculosis clinics. Professor Oviawe developed an appropriate device for

evacuation of pus in the pleural cavity for low income communities and provided simple exercise activity for asthma diagnosis in children. He established the role of economic impact (SAP) on pattern and severity of childhood tuberculosis and contributed to enhanced use of DOTS in a tuberculosis management programme. A receiver of the NTS award for Distinguished contribution to development of Respiratory Medicine in Nigeria by the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS), Professor Osawaru Oviawe’s keynote address on Non-communicable respiratory diseases in Nigeria, must not be missed. Be with us at the opening ceremony on Thursday and hear this erudite professor of paediatrics speak on the theme of the conference- Non- communicable respiratory diseases in Nigeria; increasing trend, during the opening ceremony.

14.15 hours WAT 19th November, 2020. SYMPOSIUM ON CHALLENGES IN TRAINING AND PRACTICE OF CHEST MEDICINE IN NIGERIA. PERSPECTIVES OF: A PAEDIATRIC PULMONLOGIST A CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON TWO ADULT PULMONOLOGISTS Prof Wahab Johnson, Prof Gregory Erhabor, Prof Ndubueze Ezemba and Prof Abdullah Abba will be taking us on an exciting journey into the tumultuous terrain of training and practice of chest medicine in Nigeria. The discuss will proffer solutions that will cause a turn-around in the fortunes of our practice.

PROF WAHAB JOHNSON PROF NDUBUEZE EZEMBA PROF ABDULLAHI ALKALI ABBA PROF GREGORY ERHABOR

PROF WAHAB JOHNSON MB;BS(Ibadan), FWACP(Paed.), Cert Health Plan Mgmt(Ilorin), Professor Abdul-Wahab Babatunde Rotimi JOHNSON, Professor of Paediatrics, Consultant Paediatrician, Paediatric Pulmonologist, Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, and the immediate Past Provost of the University of Ilorin College of Health Sciences, is one of the participants in the symposium on “Current Challenges in residency training in Pulmonology” Dr, and later Prof. Johnson, has risen to become a strong professional force in Paediatric medical education (especially in the subspecialty of Paediatric Pulmonology and infectious disease), post-graduate

(residency) clinical training and research at his Unilorin/UITH institution, Nigeria, and indeed, the West African sub-region. An awardee of the Commonwealth Research Fellowship (between 1990 and 1991), at the Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, he had a rewarding tutelage, under Professor John O. Warner (a world-class, but UK-based Paediatric Pulmonologist, with a subspecialty/research focus on asthma and related childhood allergic diatheses. Professor Johnson’s professional/academic ascendancy in Paediatrics, Paediatric Pulmonology and Infectious Diseases, is replete, not only with a copious volume of publications on a wide spectrum of research subjects, especially in his chosen subspecialty/research interest areas of Paediatrics (especially on several clinical and microbiological aspects of acute lower respiratory infections, paediatric meningitides, bronchial asthma, tuberculosis and paediatric infectious diseases in general. Some of his numerous publications have guided the subsisting clinical practice and standard teachings in paediatric pulmonology at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels in Nigeria, as well as the West African sub-region. Indeed, the volume and quality of his (research generated) scientific publications, contributions to contemporary medical education and clinical training at the undergraduate {MB;BS)and post-graduate levels, as well as his legion of succesful tenures of local and national administrative positions, recently earned him a deserved award of the prestigious Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (i.e. FRCP Edin.) by the Edinburg-based Royal College in Great Britain, in September 2018. His perspective on challenges in training in chest medicine in Nigeria is better listened to.

PROF GREGORY ERHABOR MBBS (IB), FWACP, Dip. Chest Medicine (RCP, UK), FCCP (USA), FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lond.) Prof. Gregory Efosa Erhabor is a Professor of Medicine at the Obafemi Awolowo University and Consultant Physician and Head of the Chest Unit at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Council of Global Governors of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) having served as an International Regent of the College for six years. Prof. Erhabor is one of the pioneering founders of the Pan-African Thoracic Society, former national delegate of the European Respiratory Society, former President of the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) and former

Chairman, STOP TB Nigeria. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the West African Journal of Medicine and Co-Editor-In-Chief of the African Journal of Respiratory Medicine. He is the President/Founder of Asthma and Chest Care Foundation. He is a member of many national and International Boards including being Advisory Board Member, Global Health Promotion on Community Health Promotion Strategies and Non-Communicable Diseases Control in Africa (2009) and Chairman of Advisory Board Member (Pfizer): The AFME Pneumococcal Adult (Vaccine). He was External Program Evaluator, East Africa Training Initiative, Ethiopia (2018). He is the Principal Investigator of the Sensation of breathlessness among asthmatics (Asthma Special Trustees United Bristol Hospital Grant); Co-PI, Burden of Obstructive Lung disease (BOLD) Study I - Nigeria Centre (2010), and Principal Investigator, Burden of Obstructive Lung disease (BOLD) Study II - Nigeria Centre (2018), amongst others. Prof. Erhabor has authored two respiratory textbooks - Pulmonary Function Tests: Spirometry and Peak Flow in Clinical Practice & Asthma: Basic Principles and Management Strategy, and has published several information booklets on asthma, tuberculosis and other chest diseases. His perspectives on the challenges of training in chest medicine in Nigeria will be worth your time.

ABDULLAHI ALKALI ABBA MBBS,DTCD,FRCPI,FRCP(Glas),FCCP Abdullahi A Abba is a Professor of Medicine and Pulmonology , Ahmadu Bello University,Samaru, Zaria and Chief Consultant Physician , Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria He was one of three doctors who started the Department of Medicine at University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital before proceeding to the United Kingdom and Ireland to train in General Internal Medicine and Pulmonology. He obtained post-graduate Diploma in Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis from the University of Wales (now Cardiff University) and, after extensive training in various disciplines of Internal Medicine, passed the first and second parts of the examination for the award of Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in the first sitting. He took up appointment with King Khalid University Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a Senior Registrar and later Consultant Physician and Pulmonologist. He was the first physician to establish fiberoptic bronchoscopy service at the then Riyadh Central Hospital, now King Saud Medical Complex. He was appointed Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh. In these capacities, he headed the largest Clinical Teaching Unit in the Middle East at King Saud Medical City, Riyadh for over a decade. He took special interest in training both undergraduate and post- graduate medical students and in developing clinical and diagnostic skills among young doctors. As an astute trainer, he attracted

numerous trainees from different hospitals in and around Riyadh. He served as an examiner for the Arab and Saudi Examination boards as well the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, for which body, he also examined in other countries in the Middle East and Asia. He serves on the Credentials Committee of the Royal College of Physicians. He also served as a supervisor for other bodies notably College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. As professor of medicine and pulmonology at ABU he currently serves as the head of Unit of Pulmonology. He has published many peer reviewed articles in high impact journals as well as delivered numerous conference papers and invited guest lectures. He is a peer reviewer of internationally recognised journals and editor of many others not the least the Editor- in- Chief of Sub-Saharan African Journal of Medicine, the official Journal of College of Health Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Professor Abba is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of American College of Chest Physicians and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He is a member of, and actively participates in, many professional societies including the Nigerian Thoracic Society, Pan- African Thoracic Society, American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, Saudi Thoracic Society and Gulf Thoracic Society. He serves as a managing director and chief executive of United Doctors – a consortium of doctors whose focus is improving the clinical skills and knowledge of doctors in practice in Nigeria. He also serves as an adviser to HE Aisha Buhari, First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Health matters especially in her role as the UN Ambassador on Tuberculosis and HIV. We cannot wait to hear his perspectives on the challenges in training of chest medicine in Nigeria.