Citizenship [NIGERIAN] Name Orishejolomi Thomas Nationality Nigerian Died 1979 | Institutions University of Lagos Residence Lagos, Nigeria Notable awards Memorial Lecture Known for Tropical medicine | |
Fields Surgery Tropical Medicine | ||
Professor Oritsejolomi Horatio Thomas (1917–1979), was a Nigerian medical pioneer specialising in facial reconstructive and plastic surgery. In this latter discipline he trained as an assistant to the wartime legend, Sir Archibald MacIndoe. Professor Thomas was educated at Methodist Boys' High School Lagos and Birmingham University England. He was a Nigerian academic and pioneer provost of the College of Medicine University of Lagos and the first Nigerian to be admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was also the first head of the University's Teaching Hospital, LUTH. He was a senior Lecturer and surgeon at the University of Ibadan, at the institution's inception to 1962 before proceeding to Lagos. He was an editor of the West African Medical Journal and was a member of the Federal Electoral Commission in 1958.