Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun is the first Nigerian female professor of psychiatry. She is a Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. She is also the first female provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
Early life and education
Olayinka is daughter of late Lt. Col Victor Banjo. She attended St. Louis Grammar School, located in the Mokola area of Ibadan and the International School Ibadan, located in the University of Ibadan (UI) for her Ordinary and Advanced Levels. She began her career in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in 1986 at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. She had further residency training first in General Psychiatry, and then Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster and the Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, in the United Kingdom. Olayinka also had training in Family Therapy at the Department of Family Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and was also a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Bipolar Research Unit. She studied at the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds where she had her Masters in Public Health in 1999, through the University of Ibadan MacArthur Foundation-funded Staff Development Programme. She furthered her studies in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Greenwood Institute for Child Health, University of Leicester, UK in 2004.
Employments and positions
She is a professor at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria She is also a consultant and head of Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria