ADELEKAN Adetunji Johnson

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ADETUNJI ADELEKAN, MD (HARVARD) FACP

Adetunji Adelekan entered Government College Ibadan (Field House) on the 18 of September 1953. He remained an active student until 1960 when he received the prestigious Cambridge Higher School Certificate. Adelekan was an active member of his class and a superb student. As a member of the prestigious Filed house (renowned for Academic excellence and Athletic prowess), he became a member of Debating society. At GCI, he unleashed his tremendous appetite for sports. Adelekan became an avid tennis player and was an outstanding mid-long distance runner for Field House. Many of his classmates found it difficult to believe that he played "First 11" (Varsity) for the GCI school soccer team (a hefty accomplishment given the generous supply of talent at the "school on the Rock”) in light of the misguided, yet widespread, impression that he was a nerd.

In 1961, Adelekan received the African Students Program Scholarship for North American Universities (ASPAU). He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology after just two (2) years. Adelekan then proceeded to Dartmouth Medical School where he obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science in 1965. He then Matriculated at Harvard Medical School where he obtained his MD (Doctor of Medicine) in 1967. Dr. Adelekan received further training in Medicine, including an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine and two (2) years Fellowship in Nephrology at the University of California in San Francisco.

Dr. Adelekan practiced in California’s Bay Area for a season before returning to Nigeria where he was employed by the Lagos State Ministry of Health and rose quickly to the post of Chief Consultant in Medicine/Nephrology. In 1979, Dr Adelekan moved into the public sector, embarked upon a budding political career and held the position of Chief Advisor to the, then, Ogun State Governor, Chief Olabisi Onabanjo. Dr. Adelekan later became the Senator for the Abeokuta, Ifo and Ota senatorial district. Unfortunately, the experiment in democracy was cut short by another Military Coup.

A fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), Dr. Adelekan returned to California in 1987, where he continued the practice of Nephrology until his retirement, in 2004, from an active and demanding medical practice. Yet, in his retirement, he has continued to "live out" his vocations a medical consultant in unusual cases.

A life-long public servant, Dr Adelekan was an active member of GCIOBA, Lagos, and is currently a deeply committed member of the Abeokuta branch. Dr. Adelekan currently serves as the Chairman of Phoenix Nigeria Limited, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), The Medical Rights Support Foundation, a national, non-profit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable heath care for all Nigerians, especially people with disabilities, through counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives.

In particular, the Medical Rights Support Foundation strives to educate the general public on how to communicate in a meaningful way with doctors and other medical care providers and to become informed medical care consumers. Typical advocacy activities are the following: patient right, matters of privacy, confidentiality or informed consent, patient representation, awareness building, support and education of patients, and survivors and their careers on heath care related (public) fora, informing the public, the political and regulatory world, health-care provider (hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies etc), organizations of health-care professionals, the educational world, and the medical and pharmaceutical research communities.

He is a member of several social and voluntary organizations such as Community Development Organizations and Council. Also, Dr. Adelekan is an active member of Abeokuta Club, Abeokuta Sport club, Primus Touch Bearers Ogun State, Elephant Golf Club, Ewekoro and Abeokuta Golf Club.

An organic intellectual and social visionary, Dr Adelekan remains a vigorous and voracious reader of Literature and an insightful interpreter of global and local political dramas. He combines the life of the mind an active cultural and civic imagination.

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