Professor Isaac Adewole, MB BS, FMCOG, FWACS

A professor at the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria since 1997, Isaac Adewole is currently a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan.

After obtaining his MB BS degree from the University of Ibadan in 1978, he underwent his further medical training in Nigeria, becoming a Senior Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at UCH in 1984. He then travelled to the UK for a Research Fellowship in the Department of Medical Oncology at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Professor Adewole became a Senior Lecturer at the College Of Medicine in the University of Ibadan from 1992-1997 and Acting Head of the Department of Obstetrics/Gynaecology at this university from 1999-2000. For the next 2 years he was Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences & Dentistry, before becoming a Provost at the College of Medicine at UCH from 2002-2006.

Professor Adewole is Director of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV Project at UCH, Chairman of the PMTCT National Task Team Subcommittee on anti-retrovirals for the PMTCT of HIV and the country's Principal Investigator for 'Operation Stop Cervical Cancer' in Nigeria. Secretary-General of the Confederation of African Medical Associations and Societies (CAMAS) from 1997-2003, Professor Adewole holds memberships of many learned societies, including the Nigerian Medical Association, the Society of Gynaecology & Obstetrics of Nigeria, the European Research Organisation on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN), and the International Network on Control of Gynaecological Cancers.

A leading advocate for nationwide access to cervical cancer screening, Professor Adewole is also involved with advocacy work designed to reduce the burden of unsafe abortions in Nigeria and is the Co-ordinator of the Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy. His current research interests include evaluating novel ideas for promoting cervical cancer screening in developing countries, a multi-country study on HPV in cervical cancer among African women and evaluating attitudes of HIV positive pregnant women to contraception and couple counselling. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on gynaecological oncology, abortion, HIV/AIDS and perinatal medicine.