I am a skilled public health informatics consultant retaining a knowledge base in

public health sciences, public health & medical informatics, health informatics project

conceptualization, development and implementation.

Master of Public Health (MPH) University of Illinois – May 2007

Training Concentration:

Graduate Certificate of Public Health in Public Health Informatics (CPHI)

University of Illinois @ Chicago – January 2006

Doctor of Medicine – Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin

October, 1987

Technology)

and medical practice

practice

preparedness

1. Data-Mining in Public Health and Clinical Research

2. Medical/Health Web Technology

3. Health Database Design and Consulting

4. Informatics Systems Analysis

5. Geographic Information Systems – Applications to Public Health and

Medical Practice

6. Health Education and Seminar Presentations

7. Administrative and Management Skills

8. Community Program, Health Planning and Program Implementation

9. Ability to Work Independently and Remotely

10. Experience working with Not-For Profit, Managed Care and Governmental

Health Promotion Agencies.

Information Systems

etc.

PHICON: Public Health Informatics Consultants - An Atlanta based public health

informatics consulting practice. PHICON is a division of Preventive Medicine

Associates, a subsidiary of Mc'lonie Networks, Inc., a Georgia based not-for-profit

Healthcare Corporation.

1. General Public Health Informatics Consulting

2. Universal Patient Health Records Project

3. Health Data (HIPPA) Privacy and Security Consulting

4. Health Information Systems Project Coordinator

5. Public Health Informatics Education and Training Coordinator

6. Public Health & Health Informatics Program Conceptualization,

Development and Implementation.

University of Phoenix, Atlanta courses include:

1. Health care delivery in the United States

2. Introduction to health care in the United States

3. Health care policy: the past and the future

4. Public and community health

5. Application of health care management principles

6. Health care infrastructure

7. Health care organizations

8. Change, negotiation and conflict resolution in health care creating change

within organizations

9. Introduction to life sciences

10. Human nutrition

11. People, science and the environment

12. Paradigms of health

13. Environmental issues and ethics

MACCA (Metro Atlanta Coalition on Cancer Awareness)

As President of the Atlanta coalition, duties include:

Initiative on Cancer.

cancers, the etiology, causation pathology and prevention.

1. Genetic predisposition to prostate cancer

2. The effect of Neoadjuvant hormonal therapy prior to Brachytherapy in the

treatment of prostate cancer.

3. Drug Study: Evaluation of patient acceptance and safety of Oxybutynin

chloride in male and female patients with urge incontinence and urgency.

4. Evaluation of an investigational new medication, VASOMAX (phentolamine)

for the treatment of mild to moderate erectile problems in the male

population.

Duties include:

1. Public health & community health consultant to the Philadelphia Department of

Public Health.

2. Special Organizing Liaison and Co nsultant to the Philadelphia County Injury

Surveillance and Epidemiological System. (This system was used to track Injury

Statistics at Philadelphia’s Emergency Rooms).

Research Evaluations of Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s, Community

Outreach and Prevention Programs

1. Rapid Response Psychiatric Intervention Program.

2. Car Seat Safety Program.

3. Bicycle Helmet Safety Program.

4. Health Department’s Safe Block Project, Philadelphia.

5. Health Promotion Specialist, Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

6. President and Cancer Prevention and Education Specialist of the Greater

Philadelphia Coalition of the National Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NBLIC).

7. Responsible for the administrative oversight of the local chapter of the National

Leadership Initiative on Cancer.

Duties include:

1. Health Department administrator for project FLOW, (Future Leaders of the World

Youth Health Program).

2. Project FLOW was a citywide health outreach and health promotion program that

was geared primarily towards the cities youth. This was a joint program between

the Drug & Gang Prevention Program, Philadelphia Department of Public Health

and the Health Promotion Department of the Mayors Office of Community

Services.

3. Public health consultant to the Department of Health Promotion, Philadelphia

Department of Public Health

4. Development and presentation of community based health education workshops

& seminars.

5. Administration of the health promotion division of the Future Leaders of the

World, Federal Health Promotion project for the City of Philadelphia.

6. Facilitating departmental in service continuing education workshops for

professional and paraprofessional staff of the Philadelphia Department of Public

Health.

Nutrition Specialist

Duties Include:

Industrial and Occupational Medicine

Director of Clinical Services

Duties include:

patient monitoring)

and post surgical patients.

1. Research Associate, invitro-fertilization research facility, College of Medicine,

University of Lagos

2. Assisted in the invitro-fertilization research project that resulted in the conception

and delivery of Africa’s first Test Tube Baby.

3. Instructor of gross anatomy, department of anatomy, College of Medicine

University of Lagos. Facilitator, Gross anatomy labs using human cadavers

4. Medical Officer in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos Infertility Research

Facility. We treated infertile couples with cutting edge hormonal cocktails and in

conjunction with the department of obstetrics and gynecology, most infertile

couples obtained conception within six months.

Internship rotations through:

1. Obstetrics and Gynecology

2. Delivery Room

3. Obstetric Emergencies

4. Neonatology

5. General Pediatrics

6. Pediatric Emergencies

Medical internship rotations through the following Departments

1. Internal Medicine

2. Cardio-thoracic Medicine

3. Psychiatry

4. Infectious Diseases

5. Medical Emergencies

6. General Surgery

7. Orthopedic Surgery

8. Gastro-intestinal Surgery

9. General Operating Room Procedures

10. Surgical Emergencies

WHO IS WHO IN AMERICA - January 2007

‘UJAMA AWARD’

This award was given by the Mayors Office of Community Services and the Future

Leaders of the World Program. This was in recognition of my efforts in cooperative

economics and synergy in helping the Mayors Office Implement its Drug and Gang

prevention, Health Education and Public Health Programs in housing developments in the

City of Philadelphia. (1997)

1. 1998 – 1999 CLINICAL BOARD MEMBER, SmithKline Beecham Medical

Advisory committee, Northeast Regional Conference on Lime Disease.

2. 1997 – 1997 CLINICAL BOARD MEMBER, Diabetes Prevention Program,

(DPP) Located at the Thomas Jefferson University and Teaching Hospital,

Department of Endocrinology. This is a Clinical Study Team Determining

Genetic Predisposition to Diabetes.

the Thomas Jefferson Center for Hematology and Oncology.

1. November 1997: Smoking Cessation Strategies: A Workshop prepared for the

Pharmacy and Medical Staff of Healthcon Inc, Bowie, Maryland. A Smoking

Cessation Program was later developed for Healthcon Inc.

2. December 1997: Faculty Member, Masonic Temple Cancer Conference. This was

an American Cancer Society sponsored Prostate Cancer conference. My

presentation; ‘Prostate disease, what all men over 40 years need to know’.

3. July 1997 - Guest Speaker, 'The plight of cancer in the African American

Community', Lecture delivered to the congregation of the Mt. Airy United

Fellowship Church.

4. July 1997: 'Care of the older person', Geriatric Care in the Elderly. Chronic

Diseases of the Aged, Cancer, Incontinence, Dementia, Depression and Care of

the Dying Geriatric Patient. The recipients of this presentation were the staff of

the Philadelphia Mayors Office of Community Services, Senior Citizens Center.

5. May 1997: Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer and Hypertension, a Chain Link to

Smoking. ‘How to quite smoking to save your life’. A health seminar presentation

at the Philadelphia North Central Empowerment Zone. (Black Men's Advocacy

Project.)

6. May 1997: 'Smoking and Lung Cancer. A lecture presentation at the Philadelphia

Health Center NUNBER 4. This Workshop featured smoking cessation strategies

for the geriatric population.

7. May 1997: 'Smoking and to Lung Disease’, a lecture presentation at health center

No. 4 addressing the issues of smoking cessation and lung diseases. This

workshop also included smoking cessation methods available within the

Philadelphia medical community.

seminar/lecture presentation to the staff and geriatric patients at the City of

9. January 1997: Guest Speaker; 'High Blood Pressure and what you can do about

it': a workshop for parents and other adults organized by the Health Education

and Outreach Department of the Greater Atlantic Health Insurance Company.

10. August 1997: ‘Environmental and Personal hygiene’: A presentation for the

inmates of the Juvenile Detention Facility in Philadelphia.

11. June 1994: June Guest Speaker, 'Child Injury Prevention and Safety: A workshop

for child care givers, parents and guardians organized by the health education

and outreach dept. of the Greater Atlantic Health Insurance Company.

12. September 1997: Health Education Outreach Seminar on Uterine Fibroids, to the

Managers and Coordinators of North Incorporated Nutrition & WIC program.

13. August 1994: Presentation of a workshop on Drug Abuse, A.I.D.S and the African

Youth, A special lecture/seminar presentation at the Department of Immunology,

St. Christopher's Hospital, Philadelphia.

14. September 1997: Guest Speaker, 'Allergies, Avoiding and Treatment of Allergic

Conditions’. This was given at the Oxford-Oaktree Health Plan's Community

Health Education Outreach Program.

15. January 1997: Guest Speaker, 'The Importance of Immunizations during

Childhood Development'. (Workshop series for the AmeriFirst Health Plan)

16. January 1997: Guest Speaker, 'How Lead Poisoning Could Affect Your Child's

Normal Physical Development’? (Workshop series for the Oxford Health Plan)

17. March, 1997: '’The Prostate Cancer Problem Among Afro-Americans.'

Presentation made at an American Cancer Society sponsored seminar.

18. March 1997: 'Early Childhood Development & Interaction with your Pediatric

Provider'. A series of seminars organized for the Amerihealth First Health Plan

Association, USA at the Adams Mark Hotel's main ballroom in Philadelphia. This

presentation discussed the issues of cancer, hypertension, diabetes and stress

among the police in particular and African Americans in general.

20. November 1998: ‘Nutritional Considerations in Cancer Prevention’. This was a

paper delivered at the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer, National

Conference in Atlanta.

1. The following articles have been published in medical journals, the internet

and health related publications.

2. Responding to Terrorism Events: Conceptualizing Event Management through

Public Health, Medical Informatics & Creative Adaptation of Technologies. –

4. ‘The Malnourished Executives': This article addressing malnutrition among

5. 'Avoiding your allergies'; an article discussing basic causes and prevention

6. 'Don't Blame Your Wife': an article based on the cultural and individual

ramifications of reproductive infertility; dispelling the myth that infertility is

1. Executive Producer and host of the Philadelphia based Medical Talk Show,

‘Health Talk 2000’. This is featured on Saturday on WHAT, Philadelphia. –

1995 – 1999

on Nigerian National Television 1990 – 1992.

Substance and Alcohol Abuse among the Youth. 1994,

video that encourages the breast-feeding of newborn babies. 1994,

5. Other extracurricular activities include swimming, sports, film production and

writing health education plays.

References:

1. Lawrence Robinson, MD, MPH

Deputy Commissioner for Public Health

Division of Health Promotion

Philadelphia Department of Public Health

2. Edward Mensah, PhD

Program Director

Public Health Informatics Program

Division of Health Policy and Administration

Master of Public Health Program

University of Illinois Department of Public Health

3. Okey Onwangburuka, MD

Attending Psychiatrist

Shasta County Health Department

Reeding, California

4. Hilda Evans

Vice President

Public Health Informatics Consultants

Acworth, GA 30102

5. Gboyega Adesokan, MD

Attending Physician

Pediatric Emergency

Welstare Hospital