Nigeria Hosts Medical “Ambassadors”

Nigeria’s capital city Abuja is set to host a team of renowned medical experts who studied, reside and currently practice in the United State of America.

The experts under the auspices of the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas are organizing a 4-day convention, beginning Wednesday 15th July to 18th at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel and the National Hospital, all in Abuja.

A release from the secretariat of the medical experts in the United States indicates that the event which promises to assemble medical practitioners from the whole of Nigeria will include a four-day intense clinical workshop on “Advanced Cardiac Skills, Emergency Medicine (Trauma Medicine) and Management of Diabetes.

The release added that this is the first time, in the association’s 15 years existence, it has chosen to host its annual event in any part of Nigeria. The statement went further to state that the essence of this convention is to share the American experience, techniques, and technology in the management of diseases that afflict both the low and high income earners in developed and developing countries. The convention/workshop, according to the organisers would afford a select group of Nigerian practitioners the opportunity of being trained to benefit the general public.

The workshop will have Dr. Ovunda Lawson-Ndu as chief trainer. Dr. Ovunda Lawson Ndu, a distinguished physician and surgeon with the Temple University Health System is the Associate Director and Vice Chairman; Department of Emergency Medicine. He is also an assistant Professor of Medicine at the lower bucks campus of the Temple University.

Dr. Ovunda Lawson Ndu, who has practiced medicine in the United States in the last 30 years holds the fellowship of the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Academy of Emergency medicine, American Professional would care Association. He is also named WHO is WHO in American, WHO is WHO IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA.

The presentation on the most modern method of the management of diabetes, which holds at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, will be handled by Dr. Samuel Dagogo Jack, a renowned endocrinologist and a clinical professor at Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Dagogo Jack has to his credit notable research work, that has brought succor to uncountable victims of diabetes, hypertension and stroke.

Both Dr. Ovunda Lawson-Ndu and Dr. Samuel Dagogo Jack are indigenes of Rivers State, who have recorded giant strides in medicine in the U.S.A.