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CURRICULUM VITAE
SYLVANUS ADETOKUNBOH AYENI, M.D.
PROFESSION: Neurosurgery. (Retired).
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
Writer: Author of nonfiction Book: RESCUE THYSELF: Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within
President: Pan Africa Children Advocacy Watch, (PACAW) Inc.
www.pacaw.org
Development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the education of children.
Leadership training for the next generation of leaders of Sub- Saharan Africa.
Mailing Address: P. O. BOX 34284, BETHESDA, MD. 20827.
Email: [email protected] 301 - 910 - 1020
EDUCATION:
College of Medicine
University of Lagos, Nigeria
Degree: M.B. B.S. September 1972.
INTERNSHIP:
University College Hospital
Ibadan, Nigeria.
September 1972 to September 1973.
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
USA. July 1976 to June 1977
( General Surgery).
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center Brooklyn, New York
July 1977 to June 1978. (General Surgery)
RESIDENCY:
University of Wisconsin Hospitals Madison, Wisconsin,
USA. July 1978 to June 1983. (Neurosurgery).
BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Neurosurgery, May 1987.
FELLOWSHIPS:
Klinik fur Hals-Nasen Ohren Städtisches Klinikum Fulda Pacelliale 4
Fulda, Germany.
January 1992 - March 1992.
(Otologic Aspects of Skull Base Surgery).
Department of Neurosurgery
Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
May 1992 to February 1993
(Skull Base Surgery Fellowship).
PRIVATE PRACTICE:
Marquette General Hospital
Marquette, Michigan October 1983 to June 1985.
PRIVATE PRACTICE/ACADEMIC Attending Neurosurgeon
US Naval Hospital, Oakland California
July 1985 to July 1988.
PRIVATE PRACTICE/ACADEMIC Attending Neurosurgeon
Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC September 1996 to December 2008.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical and Surgical Neurology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock, Texas
January 1989 to August 1991.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Neurosurgery Howard University Hospital Washington, DC
August 1993 to September 1995.
Associate Professor
Division of Neurosurgery
Creighton University School of Medicine Omaha, Nebraska
March 2009 to September 2012.
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PUBLICATIONS:
1. Nonsurgical management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hematoma
Neurosurgery; Vol. 9, No. 4: 386 - 393, 1981. 2. Microsurgical Anatomy of the Jugular Foramen
J. Neurosurg. 83: 903 - 909, 1995
3. The Human Cadaver in the Age of Biomedical Informatics
The Anatomical Record (New Anat.) 269: 20 - 32, 2002
PRESENTATIONS:
1. Surgery of Cavernous Sinus Tumors: A study of 95 Cases.
Presented at the 1st International Skull Base Congress, Hanover, Germany, June 16, 1992.
2. Microsurgical Anatomy of the Jugular Foramen
Presented at the 2nd International Skull Base Congress, San Diego, California, on July 3, 1996.
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:
Life member, New York Academy of Sciences.
