Bolanle Otegbayo wife of the chief medical director (CMD) of University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan has been elevated to the rank of a professor.
Her husband Prof Jesse Otegbayo announced this via a tweet on Monday.
According to him, she is now a professor of food science and technology at Bowen University.
“I felicitate (with) my wife Bolanle as she is elevated to the rank of a Professor of food science and technology at the Bowen University, Iwo where she’s been engaged in research and mentoring of undergraduate and postgraduate students,” he wrote.
Prof. Otegbayo who took over from Prof. Temitope Alonge as UCH CMD obtained his MSc and Ph.D. in Chemical Pathology/Immunology at the University of Ibadan in 2003 and 2011 respectively.
Among other positions, he was a World Bank consultant to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone, and later the maiden chief medical director, University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex, Freetown.