Faculty and Facilitators

SMLP brings together distinguished faculty members, accomplished executive CEOs, policy leaders, and seasoned practitioners selected based on their leadership accomplishments to bridge theory and practice.

Prof. Adesola Olumide
MBBS, MSc, FWACP, FMCPH

Prof. Adesola Olumide

Adesola Olumide is a professor of adolescent medicine and health and a consultant community physician at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), University of Ibadan, and University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. She served as a commissioner on the WHO-UNICEF-LANCET Commission ('A future for the world's children?') and is a commissioner on the current Lancet Commission on adolescent health. She is the Vice President (Sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH) and chairs the Technical Quality Delivery subcommittee for the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria.

Key Professional Leadership Appointments

Vice President (Sub-Saharan Africa), International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH)
Commissioner, WHO-UNICEF-LANCET Commission & Current Lancet Commission
President, Society for Adolescent and Young People’s Health in Nigeria (SAYPHIN)
Chair, Technical Quality Delivery Subcommittee, FMOH Nigeria
Treasurer, African Epidemiological Association (AfEA)
Adolescent HealthDigital Health TechnologiesHealth Policy & AdvocacyEpidemiology
PT, PhD, FPPC, FNSP

Prof. A.F. Adeniyi

Fatai Adeniyi is a distinguished professor of physiotherapy and former Deputy Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. An accomplished educator and administrator, he has served in numerous leadership capacities including Worldwide President of the Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association (ICOMAA), Head of Department of Physiotherapy, and Director of physical activity initiatives across Africa. He currently serves as the Director of the Centre for General Studies, UI.

Key Professional Leadership Appointments

Director, Centre for General Studies (CGS), University of Ibadan
Former Deputy Provost, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
Former Worldwide President, Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association (ICOMAA)
National Centre Director, Exercise is Medicine (American College of Sports Medicine)
Extraordinary Professor of Lifestyle Diseases, North-West University, South Africa
Health PromotionNon-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)Academic LeadershipPhysiotherapy
MBBS, FMCS, FWACS, FAOTRAUMA, FMC.Ortho, FICS

Dr. Adedamola Dada

Dr. Adedamola Dada is a distinguished orthopaedic and trauma surgeon and award-winning healthcare manager with over two decades of clinical and transformational leadership. As MD/CEO of Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta (2017–2024), he spearheaded a historic institutional transformation—expanding bed capacity from 75 to 420, making it the first public tertiary hospital in Nigeria to attain SafeCare Level 4 certification, and winning the National Health Excellence Award. His achievements were featured as a Lagos Business School case study. In 2022, he received a National Honour from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Key Professional Leadership Appointments

CEO, Redeemers Health Village
Former MD/CEO, Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta (2017–2024)
Board Chairman, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH)
Member, Presidential Committee on Health Sector Reform
Recipient of National Honour (2022) for Outstanding Health Service
Healthcare Institutional TransformationHospital ManagementHealth Sector ReformOrthopaedic Surgery