Sunday R. Akinbo
Professor Akinbo is presently the Head (Chairman), Department of Physiotherapy, College of Medicine of the University of Lagos and also; the Head (Chairman) and Consultant Physiotherapist, Department of Physiotherapy, Lagos University Teaching Hospital both in Lagos Nigeria.
Biography
His academic and professional qualifications include BSc Physiotherapy, MSc & PhD Musculoskeletal Anatomy, University of Lagos, Nigeria and FPC, Nigeria. He is member of several national and international academic and professional associations among which are, Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (NSP), Society for the Study of Pain, Nigeria (SSPN), International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), International Society of Physiotherapy Journal Editors (ISPJE). He has served as external examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate professional examinations in most of the Physiotherapy training Universities in Nigeria. He has also served as external assessor for Physiotherapy promotion exercise in several hospitals in Nigeria, and chairman and member of several academic and professional accreditation panels in Nigeria and Ghana. Professor Akinbo is a recipient of several academic, professional and community distinctions awards. He has supervised 8 PhDs and 28 MSc theses and dissertations, and over 145 B. Physiotherapy research projects into completion. He has attended well over 100 conferences locally and internationally, and has presented papers in all the conferences attended, and has also served as a Guest/Keynote Speaker in over 40 meetings (Conferences and Workshops). He has published well over 80 full research studies and 100 research abstracts in peered reviewed journals and conferences proceedings. His professional areas of specialization are Musculoskeletal & Orthopaedics Physiotherapy and Sports Physiotherapy.