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Chief Medical Director
The appointment which took effect from 1st March, 2011, for a term of 4 years, was conveyed vide a letter Ref. HMF/ABJ/017/Vol.219 dated 27th January, 2011, signed by the Honourable Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu. Professor Alonge succeeded Professor Abiodun ilesanmi whose tenure ended on 28th February, 2011. Biography
Professor Temitope Oluwagbenga Alonge was born at Oka Akoko,Akoko South West LGA of ondo state on the 16th March,1959. He had his West African school certificate (Grade 1) in 1975 from Owo High School, Owo, and later proceeded to the college of medicine, university of Ibadan where he obtained his Bachelor of medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree (MBBS) in 1983.
In April 1991, he became a fellow of the Royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS) Edinburgh, and Fellow, West African college of surgeon, FWACS (Orthopaedics and Trauma) in April 1994). His passion for the care of patient in his country prompted him to return to Nigeria in 1995 on completing his post graduate training in orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in England. He popularized the concept of plate and screw fixation of fractures using the AO techniques and also designed the Alonge –Wale intra-operative antibiotic bead makers which made the beads making easier.
Prof. Alonge formulated the ceftriaxone-polymethyl methacrylate antibiotic beads and initiated the treatment of chronic bone infection with the Belfast technique in Nigeria as well as the concept of state emergency medical services at a two-day workshop which was conduct at the British Council in 1996 and has since been adopted by many state of the federation. As a professor of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, he initiated the basic trauma care course in Ibadan for reducing the number of preventable trauma related deaths.
He was responsible for the plaster Technician Training Course at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. He belonged to the team that designed the syllabus for the Technician training. He edited and contributed a great deal to the production and publication of the first trauma text book in Nigeria. The Basic Trauma Care.
In addition to his many strides, Prof. Temitope Alonge promoted the concept of Telemedicine at the University College Hospital where he pioneered the practice after attending the National medicine training programme at the Telemedicine training programme at the National Space Research Centre in Abuja. The performance of the Telemedicine Unit informed the choice of making UCH the only Super Specialist Hospital in the entire continent under the pan African e-health and the telemedicine programme.
The erudite professor of orthopaedics and trauma is a full registered member of the General Medical Council (U.K) and Nigeria Medical Council . He is the first fellow of the British Association for Surgery of the knee (BASK)/Johnson and Johnson knee Fellow . He was a former Deputy Chairman Medical, Medical Advisory Committee (DCMAC) Special Duties, where he served on various committees involved in strategic assignments to move UCH forward amongst other posts he had held. Prof. Alonge also won several academic grants like the MacArthur Grant (2003), the University of Ibadan Senate Research Grant (2001) and the University of Ibadan Advancement Centre Research Grant (2010). He is married with children.
