About Me
Iyeopu Minakiri
Siminialayi, a professor of endocrine pharmacology is a 1988 Bachelor of
Medical Sciences in Pharmacology and a 1991 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor
of Surgery graduate of the University of Port Harcourt. He is also a 2003
Master of Science in Pharmacology graduate from the University of Lagos and a
2008 Doctor of Medicine in endocrine pharmacology and metabolic medicine
graduate from the University of Port Harcourt.
Born on March 22, 1965
in Kano City, he hails from Okrika in Rivers State, where he attended primary
school from 1970-1976. He had his secondary education at Government
Comprehensive Secondary School, Port Harcourt from 1976-1981 and did A’ levels
at Federal Government College, Port Harcourt, before being
admitted into the University of Port Harcourt to study medicine in 1984.
Professor Iyeopu
Siminialayi has, at various times in his academic career, been meritoriously
awarded a Federal Government Scholarship [1982-1983], Best Graduating Student
in Pathology in 1991 and Prof Mabadeje’s Prize for Best Graduating Student in
M. Sc. Pharmacology in 2003. He passed the United States Medical Licensing
Examination Steps 1 & 2 [1994/1995] and Graduate Records Examination in
2003.
Professor Siminialayi
joined the services of the University of Port Harcourt in 1994 as Lecturer II
in the Department of Pharmacology, College of Health Sciences and rose to the
rank of Lecturer I in 2001, Senior Lecturer in 2004 and Professor in 2010.
He has served the
University and larger society in various capacities and is currently the
Director of the Centre for Malaria Research and Phytomedicine at the University
of Port Harcourt. He was previously Dean, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, a
member of the University’s Professional Ethics Committee, Research Ethics
Committee, and is Chairman of the PTA of his children’s secondary school. He is
a reviewer for several local and international journals including Biomed
Central Publications, based in the United Kingdom and an external examiner to
nearly every medical school in the South-South region of Nigeria and others. He
has over 60 published articles in local and international journals to his
credit and supervised 8 M.Sc. projects, one of which won third prize at the NUC
National research fair held in Abuja in 2012 and 6 Ph.Ds. He is a member of the
West African Society for Pharmacology, the Nigeria Medical Association and the
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. His research
interests include obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic
syndrome and food as medicine.
The second of 5 children
(four men and one woman), Professor Siminialayi is married to Mrs. Tonbra
Theresa Siminialayi (Nee Ebikebina) and has 3 children: Fayeofori Wilfred,
Tamunoibiton Daphne and Tamunomieibi Simon. His mother, Mrs Dinah I Siminialayi
is a retired headmistress and his Father Mr Frank Siminialayi Obi died in 1966
in Kano, in the uprising that followed the Coup of that year.
Prof Siminialayi is
described by his peers as a gentleman, a quietly brilliant academic, a
principled man, a man obsessed with excellence and rectitude in his personal
conduct and in those he mentors, and a very good administrator.
His hobbies are Table Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Reading, Classical Music, Movies and Chess.
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His hobbies are Table Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Reading, Classical Music, Movies and Chess.
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