PROFILE OF PROFESSOR HAKEEM BABATUNDE FAWEHINMI
Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi is a Professor of Clinical
Anatomy and Biomedical Anthropology with a wealth of experience in Institutional
Administration and well-rooted in the finest academic
traditions. On completion of his medical training in 1992 from UniPort,
he undertook his internship training at UPTH before proceeding for his NYSC at
the Nigerian Air Force Clinic, Ilorin in 1994. He gained employment into UniPort
in June 1995 as a Lecturer II and rose through the ranks to become a Professor
in May 2010. During these years of his stewardship, he held key academic and
administrative positions and served in several Statutory and Ad–hoc Committees
and Boards, attributes which have equipped him with the requisite skills to provide leadership to a well-informed, articulate
and growing academic community.
He has been an active member of his National and
International Professional Associations where he served as Secretary-General
and Member of NEC (1999 – 2000) Nigerian Medical Association, Rivers State, Editor–in–Chief
of the Journal of Anatomical Sciences and President of the Society of
Experimental and Clinical Anatomists of Nigeria (2014-2016). He has received many
Academic and Community Service Awards such as Research Fellow to the Department
of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, UCL, Fellow Royal Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Fellow Anatomical Society of Nigeria,
Fellow Institute of Industrial Administration of Nigeria and Fellow Experimental
and Clinical Anatomists of Nigeria.
In these 25 years, he has been actively involved in
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research and has 3 Book Chapters, 3
Monographs, 71 articles in peer reviewed journals, regularly cited and visible
in conventional academic search engines. He has reviewed 3 scholarly books, written
Forwards to 3, presented 11 Guest Lectures and Keynote Speeches and delivered
the 111th Inaugural Lecture of UniPort in October 2014. He participated
in 58 Conferences and Workshops locally and internationally and is currently
working on the Standardization of Negroid Gross Anatomical Models an invention in
the process of being patented and won prizes at the 4th National
Universities Research and Development Fairs.
As DVC (Academic) UniPort (2016 – 2020) the academic
calendar ran smoothly and lectures and examinations were quality assured. The
University achieved almost 100% full accreditation status for its over 65
undergraduate degree programmes from the NUC and Professional Regulatory
Bodies. He has been involved in the conceptualization and delivery of several
MoUs, partnerships between Town and Gown, fostered sustainable linkages and
affiliations between the University and Industry partners, government
parastatals, local and foreign institutions; sourcing and facilitating Grants
and funding support into the University System, Endowment of Prizes and
Professorial Chairs.
Prof. Fawehinmi has been External Examiner to almost
all the Colleges of Medicine in the 6 geopolitical zones of Nigeria, and has
led Visitation Panels of NUC and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to some
medical Schools. He is married to Mrs. Hadeezat Omotayo Fawehinmi and they have
5 children.
Prof Hakeem Fawehinmi
BMedSc, MBBS
(UPH), MSc (London) MD FRAI FIIA FASN FECAN
hakeem.fawehinmi@uniport.edu.ng +234(0)8037076033
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