Dr. Kazeem Adeola Oshikoya
Professor of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics & Toxicology,
Lagos State University College of Medicine
Professor Kazeem Adeola Oshikoya is a physician-scientist, a consummate researcher and an astute educator at the Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja. He is a Professor in Clinical Pediatric Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Toxicology. He bagged M.B; B.S and MSc degrees in Pharmacology at the University of Lagos, PhD in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and proceeded for his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Pharmacogenomic Studies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
His research interests are pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology, medical education that promotes rational prescribing, drug metabolism, and pharmacogenomics.
His research has promoted safe and personalized medicine use among children. On several occasion, he has served as an expert witness in litigations on drug-related problems.
He has published extensively in local and international peer-review journals with over a 100 publications to his credit. He has also published some book chapters in Medical Entrepreneurship.
He belongs to several associations and learned societies including:
- Nigerian Society for Pharmacological Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (NISPET)
- West African Society for Pharmacology (WASP-SOAP)
- Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)
- Medicines Utilisation Research in Africa (MURIA)
- American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT)
- European Society for Developmental Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacology (ESDPPP)
- International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)
- International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP)
- A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine (FNAMed)
- A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FAMedS).
He has won the following scholarship, awards, and travel grants:
- NIH T32 Grant for Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at the Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, July 2015-June 2017.
- Funding from the Carl Storm Under-Represented Minority Fellowship (CSURM) Program to attend Drug Metabolism Gordon Research Conference on Precision Medicine Revolution in Holderness School, 33 Chapel Lane, Holderness, New Hampshire, United States, July 2016.
- Partial Scholarship from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology to attend the 30th ICPE Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, 2014
- Visiting Editor to Therapeutic Guidelines in Melbourne, Australia (All Expenses Fully Funded). June 7-21, 2014.
- IUPHAR-Education Bursary Scholarship to attend the EACPT summer school of Education in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23-25 August, 2012.
- Partial Scholarship from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology to attend the ICPE meeting in Barcelona, Spain, 23-25 August, 2012.
- Travel Scholarship by the organizers of ICIUM 2011 to attend the 3rd International Conference for Improving use of Medicines at Antalya, Turkey in November 14-18, 2011
- Listed in the Marquis WHO is WHO in the World, 21st Edition, 2010
- Lagos State Government Foreign Scholarship for postgraduate study in the UK
- Olabisi Adunola Benson Scholarship for undergraduate study at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
- Late Otunba Adeniran Ogunsanya Scholarship for Advanced Level Study at King’s College, Lagos Nigeria and for undergraduate study at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
He happily married with children.
