International Journal of Drug Development and Research

 Professor of Medicine

  After Mr. Adesola Ogunniyi residency training in Neurology, He benefited from neuroepidemiology fellowship at the National Institute of Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), NIH which adequately prepared me for community-based studies. He have thus been involved with cross-cultural, collaborative studies for over two decades investigating the epidemiology of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans as compared with Yoruba Africans. He have served as Investigator, Director of Project for the Ibadan site and Co-Principal Investigator during the seven waves of the study. He  was also an Investigator on the Ibadan Study of Ageing which has provided data on the epidemiology of disability and dementia in elderly population resident in Southwest Nigeria. He is  well acquainted with the challenges and demands of community based studies having participated in various aspects including consensus diagnosis, formulation of hypotheses and data presentation at scientific meetings. 

 Research interest areas include stroke, epilepsy and cardiovascular health promotion in sub-Saharan Africa.