Speakers info

Dr. Adekile graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and had his post-doctoral Pediatric Hematology Fellowship in Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA. He was also a Fogarty International Fellow in Molecular Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia. He is currently a Professor in Kuwait University and was the Founding Chairman of the Nigerian Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria. Dr. Adekile has done a lot of work on SCD in Nigeria and Kuwait. His expertise is on the clinical,hematological and molecualr aspects in patients with the high HbF phenotype.