Latunde Odeku

E. Latunde Odeku (an haife shi Emanuel Olatunde Alaba Olanrewaju Odeku ; 1927, Lagos, Nigeria – mutu, London, 1974) shi ne dan Najeriya na farko da ya samu horo a fannin aikin jinya a Amurka wanda kuma ya fara aikin tiyatar jijiya a Afirka.

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Daga cikin al'adun Yarbawa,   An haifi Latunde a Legas, Najeriya. Mahaifinsa dan asalin Awe ne  yayin da mahaifiyarsa 'yar Legas ce. Ya yi makarantar sakandare ta Methodist Boys, Legas. kuma ya wuce Jami'ar Howard kuma ya kammala karatun summa cum laude a Zoology a 1950. Daga baya an ba shi tallafin karatu don yin karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Howard, inda ya sami MD a 1954.

 Aikin likita 
Bayan da Latunde ta ci jarrabawar Licencuate Medical Canada a shekara ta gaba a Najeriya a matsayin jami'in kula da lafiya a babban asibitin Legas. A 1961, ya koma Amurka kuma an ba shi matsayin zama, horo a karkashin Dr. Kahn (daga 1956 zuwa 1960) a Jami'ar Michigan . Bayan haka, ya horar da ilimin Neurology a karkashin Dokta Webb Haymaker a Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Walter Reed da ke Washington, DC Daga bisani ya sake yin wani wurin zama na likitan yara a asibitin yara na Philadelphia karkashin Dokta Eugene Spitz, mahaliccin Spitz-Holter valve don magance hydrocephalus. . A cikin 1961, an nada shi Malamin Neuroanatomy da Neurosurgery a Kwalejin Magunguna, Jami'ar Howard .

Ko da yake Latunde daga baya an ba da alƙawura da yawa da suka haɗa da fitattun jami'o'i biyu na aikin tiyata a cikin Amurka; duk da haka ya zabi komawa Najeriya. Latunde ya zo Jami'ar Ibadan a shekarar 1962 a matsayin likitan tiyata na farko a Afirka ta Yamma. A cikin 1962, an nada shi a matsayin babban jami'in koyarwa kuma ya zama ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Likitocin Amurka. A 1965, an nada shi a matsayin Farfesa na Neurosurgery; daga 1968 zuwa 1971, ya zama shugaban sashen tiyata da kuma shugaban kwalejin likitanci na jami'ar Ibadan . Ya kuma kafa kwalejojin likitanci na kasa da Afirka ta yamma da kuma tsarin fara aiki a Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Jami'ar Ibadan, wanda a halin yanzu ake gudanarwa a duk makarantun likitancin Najeriya.
Latunde kuma mawaƙi ne kuma marubuci: Ya ba da gudummawa sosai ga wallafe-wallafen neurosurgical, inda ya buga labaran kimiyya 61 a cikin kusan shekaru 12.

An ba Latunde lambar yabo ta tsofaffin ɗaliban Jami'ar Howard don hidima na musamman.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Latunde ta yi auren sau biyu ga likitocin likita. Aurensa na farko ya haifar da ’ya’ya biyu kafin a kashe aure. A cikin 1971 ya auri Katherine Jill Adcock, wata likitar likitancin Ingila wacce ke aiki a asibitin Kwalejin Jami'ar. Suna da 'ya'ya biyu - Alan, wanda aka haifa a watan Oktoba 1971 da kuma 'yar da aka haifa a Janairu 1973. 

A cikin rayuwarsa, duk da kasancewarsa ƙwararren likita, Latunde kawai ya buga labarai 85 da suka shafi likitanci da wasu labarai 13 da suka shafi batutuwa na gaba ɗaya. A matsayinsa na ƙwararren likita-mawaƙi, ya rubuta tarin wakoki guda biyu: Twilight: Out of the Night (1964), da Whispers from the Night (1969). 

 Bayan shekaru 
Daga 1972, lafiyarsa ta fara kasawa daga rikice-rikice na Ciwon sukari . Ya mutu a ranar 20 ga Agusta, 1974, a Asibitin Hammersmith, London kuma an binne shi a cocin St Peter's Church, Burnham, Ingila.  

 Ayyukan da aka buga 

 Twilight of the Night 
 Odeku, E. Latunde. (1978). Publications of E. Latunde  
 E. Latunde Odeku (1975) 
 Whispers from the night (1969) 
 Odeku, E. L., & Adeloye, A. (1978). Publications of E. Latunde Odeku. Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan.
 Beginnings of Neurosurgery at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria 
 Congenital Subgaleal Cysts over the Anterior Fontanelle in Nigerians 
 Adeloye, Adelola Odeku, E. Latunde (1971-02). Congenital Subgaleal Cysts over the Anterior Fontanelle in Nigerians 
 Adeloye, A.; Odeku, E. L. (1971-02-01) Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head 
 Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head (Book) 
 Perspectives in Neurosurgery  (1971-01-01)  
 Adeloye, Adelola; Latunde Odeku, E. (1971). "The radiology of missile head wounds". Clinical Radiology. 22 (3): 312–320. doi:10.1016/s0009-9260(71)80079-x. ISSN 0009-9260.
 Biography - E. Latunde Odeku, an African neurosurgeon (1976) 
 Three decades of medical research at the College of Medicine, Ibadan, Nigeria 1948 - 1980 ; a list of the papers publ. by members of the College of Med. of the Univ. of Ibadan from its foundation through 1980 
 E. Latunde Odeku, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S., 1927-1974. An African pioneer neurosurgeon.
 Letter E. Latunde Odeku  
 Obituary: Professor E. Latunde Odeku B.Sc., M.D., L.M.C.C. (Canada), D.A.B.N.S., F.I.C.S., F.A.C.S., F.M.C.S. (Nigeria) by A Adeloye Publication: Surgical neurology, 1975 Apr; 3(4): 187
 11th E. Latunde Odeku memorial lecture given on 27 October 1987.

 Nassoshi 

Category:Mutuwan 1974
Category:Haifaffun 1927