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, studentBMJ, 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 also blogs at Square One.