Meet Our Contributors – Seye

Seye Abimbola has an MBChB from the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He edited his medical school journal, IFEMED from 2004-06 and he has also been international advisor to journals published by the BMJ Group since 2005. His articles have appeared in IFEMED, student BMJ, as well as the BMJ. He was awarded the 2007 BMJ Clegg Scholarship and also won the 2007 Global Forum for Health Research/The Lancet Essay Prize. Seye was a pre-registration house officer at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, Nigeria, one of the component hospitals of the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex. He did his national service as a research assistant in the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, and he is presently a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is passionate about having research quality and capacity boosted in developing countries, especially in Nigeria, and his monthly contributions on NigeriansTalk will revolve around issues relating to medicine, science, healthcare, research and development. His blog, Square One, is at www.sasquare.com