Peter Oluwole, MBBS, FMCPath

Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Abuja; Secretary General, Association of Pathologists of Nigeria (ASSOPON); Head of Department, Pathology/Forensic Medicine, University of Abuja; Deputy Dean, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, University of Abuja

Olabode Peter Oluwole is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Abuja in Nigeria. His research interests include genitourinary pathology, breast cancer biology and genetics, paediatric oncology, and soft tissue tumours. Peter has 36 pathology-related publications and is a member of the Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate Consortium (MADCaP) and the West African Division of the IAP, among other associations. He is the Secretary General of the Associate of Pathologists of Nigeria (ASSOPON) and is the Head of Department for Pathology/Forensic Medicine and the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences at the University of Abuja. Peter has strong interests in education and training for pathology.

Happenings

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ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:

Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.

The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.