Dr. Kevin Osita Okonkwo
Senior Lecturer
Contact: Location of Office is at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla.
E-mail addresses: kobokonkwo@yahoo.com
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Was born in December 23rd 1954. Attended St. Andrew’s Primary School Port-Harcourt.
Was briefly in Stella Maris College Port-Harcourt before the outbreak of the civil war.
Completed my secondary education at St. Vincent’s Secondary School Agbogugu where I
came out with Distinction in 1972.
Had my Higher School education at Holy Ghost College Owerri between 1973 and 1974.
Attended the University of Benin Medical School and graduated in 1980. Obtained
residency training in Psychiatry at UNTH mainly under the tutelage of Dr. W.P.J.C.
Onyeama and Prof. U.H. Ihezue. Got F.M.C. Psych. in 1992.
Was employed into the college of medicine UNEC in 1994 as a lecturer I together also as
an Honorary consultant psychiatrist in U.N.T.H. Has worked for several decades also as
Hon. Consultant Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Interested in Liaison/Consultation Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry and expertise in general Psychopathology.
COURSES TAUGHT/COORDINATED
- General adult psychiatry and addiction psychiatric
- Liaison Psychiatry
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
1. Member of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)
2. Member of Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (APN)
RESEARCH ARCHIVE
1. Ihezue U. H; Onuora A. N.; Okonkwo K. O. Mental disorders related to
Chloroquine.
The Enugu experience Nigerian Journal of Psychiatry (1988). Vol. 1
No.3: 155 - 157
This paper describes two cases' of toxic Psychosis and one of depression related
to the use of chloroquine phosphate.
2. Ihezue U. H; Okonkwo K. O.;Okereke E. N. C. Long Stay Patients in a Nigerian
Prison Mental Hospital: Survey of their Psychosocial Problems. Psychopatholgie
Africaine (1993). XXV. 1: 77 - 93
3. Ihezue U. H; Nwakoby B. A. N; Okonkwo K. O.; Okereke E. N. C. Admissions
and readmissions into a Psychiatric hospital in Nigeria. A study of demographic
and clinical correlates. Psychopathologie Africaine. (1993). XXV. 1: 105 - 114.
4. Okonkwo K. O. B; Ezeani P.O.; Ihezue U. H.; Nwagbo D. F. E. Psychoactive
Substance abuse amongst an Urban Secondary School Population in Enugu
Nigeria. Prevalence and Pattern of Use. 1. ColI. Med. June 1999;4(1): 24 - 26.
5. Okonkwo K. O. B; Ezeani P.O.; Ihezue U. H.; Nwagbo D. F. E. Pathoplastic
Sociodemographic characteristics of Psychoactive substance users in an urban
Secondary School in Enugu, Nigeria 1. ColI. Med. Dec. 1999;4(2): 87 - 89.
6. Okonkwo K. O. B; Ezeani P. O. The use and abuse of psychoactive substances
by students of a rural Secondary School in Enugu, Nigeria. 1. ColI. Med. Dec.
2002; 7(2): 115 -117
7. Aniebue P. N.; Okonkwo K. O. B Prevalence of depressive symptoms amongst
pulmonary tuberculosis patients at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital,
Enugu. J. ColI. Med. Dec. 2006; 11(2): 120-124.
8. Okonkwo K. O. B. Schizophrenia in three consecutive brothers: Case report.
Nigerian Medical Journal. 2006; 47(4): 91 - 92
9. Aniebue P. N.; Okonkwo K. O. B.Prevalence of Psychoactive drug use by taxi
drivers in Nigeria. J. Coll. Med. June 2008; 13(1): 48 - 52.
10. Bakare M. O.; Agomoh A. O.; Ebigbo P.O.; Eaton J; Okonkwo K. O.; Onwukwe,
J. U.; Onyeama G. M.: Etiological explanation, treatability and preventability of
childhood autism: A survey of Nigerian health care workers' opinion; Annals of
General Psychiatry 2009 8:6 http//www.armals-general-
psychiatry.com/content/8/1/6.
11. Bakare M. O.; Ebigbo P.O.; Agomoh, A. O. Eaton J; Onwukwe J. U.; Onyeama
G. M; Okonkwo, K.O.; Igwe M. N.; Orovighwo, A.O.; Aguocha C. M.:
Knowledge about childhood autism and opinion among health care workers on
availability of facilities and law caring for the needs and rights of children with
childhood autism and other development disorders in Nigeria: BMC Pediatrics
2009, 9: 12.http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-243119112 .
12. Bakare, M. O; Agomoh, A. O.; Ebigbo, P.O.; Onyeama G. M.; Eaton, J.;
Onwukwe, J. U.; Okonkwo, K. 0.: Co-morbid disorders and sexual risk behaviour
in Nigerian adolescents with bipolar disorder: International Archives of Medicine
2009,2: 16 bttp:llwww.intm"chmed.com/contcnt/2/1/16.
1. Igwe M.N.; Bakare M.O.; Onyeama G.M.; Okonkwo, K.O. Factors influencing knowledge about childhood austism among final year undergraduate medical, nursing and psychology students in University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria. Chinese Medical Journal 2010:123, supplement 2;137. Longitudinal study of drug and substance abusers.