Dr. Adeseye Akintunde
Publicity Secretary
Adeseye Abiodun Akintunde finished his basic medical education at the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He is a consultant cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) & LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. He is the current Head of the Cardiology Unit in the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso. He is also the Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Cardiac Society and presently the Course Director of the African Hypertension School for the management of hypertension by non-physician health workers, an initiative of the African Regional Advisory Group of the International Society of Hypertension.
His research interest is in hypertension and the clustering of CV risk factors, stratification, and its management. It also includes heart failure, rheumatic valvular heart disease, and its genomics.