Popular US magazine, Time Magazine, on Thursday, named Professor Dimie Ogoina as one of the world’s most influential people of 2023 due to his contribution to the awareness of a new presentation of Mpox, formerly known as Monkeypox.
Ogoina is a Nigerian professor and an infectious diseases physician at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri, Bayelsa State.
The magazine recognized Ogoina for raising the alarm on a new presentation of Mpox and continuing with his documentation when the world was not listening.
Below are seven major things to know about the Nigerian physician,
- Professor Ogoina was born in Bayelsa State, South-South Nigeria.
- He attended Government Secondary School, Amassoma, Bayelsa State before proceeding to Ahmadu Bello University where he studied Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery.
- He did his residency training with Geoffrey Onyemelukwe, a Professor of Medicine and Immunology at ABU, and taught medical students at ABU.
- Prof. Ogoina and his team at NDUTH diagnosed and managed the first case of Monkeypox in Nigeria during the 2017 outbreak in the country.
- He became a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, at the age of 40 years.
- Professor Ogoina currently serves as the Chief Medical Director of the NDUTH and the President of the Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society.
- He also has a keen research interest in the cure for HIV/Aids.
