Matthew Shokunbi

Matthew Temitayo Shokunbi is a consultant neurosurgeon at the University College Hospital, studied medicine at the University of Ibadan from 1973 to 1978. He had distinctions in Pathology, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He later went to the University of Western Ontario to study Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy between 1981 and 1986 and he obtained an MSc in Specialist Certificate in Neurosurgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He trained in congenital anomalies research at Kyoto University, Kyoto, and Meiji Institute of Health, Odawara, Japan from December 1990 to June 1991. Between July and December 1994 he underwent fellowship training in Paediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Ottawa. At the National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan, he trained in teratology, molecular and cell neurobiology from January to December 1995. He has been a faculty member in the Anatomy Department with a joint position in Surgery (Neurosurgery) at the University of Ibadan since 1980. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy in 1996. He has several publications to his credit.