PHONE NUMBER: +2348037790402

 

E-MAIL ADDRESSES: vajel@yahoo.com; emmanuelv.ugwu@unn.edu.ng; ugwueov@yahoo.co.uk

 

 OPENING STATEMENT

 

Dr. E.O.V. UGWU is a Nigerian Obstetrician-gynaecologist with strong bias for Reproductive Health, Urogynaecolgy and Pelvic reconstruction. He has reasonable years of working experience and co-ordinates effectively in both clinical and research works. He continuously seeks new clinical/research opportunities where excellence in job performance is highly valued with a view to breaking and re-breaking the frontiers of conventionally accepted scientific knowledge --- a vision actualisable via his enormous potentials/existing clinical and research skills as well as strong background academic/professional qualifications. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals (locally and internationally) with over 30 of these papers published in journals with impact factor (IF).

 

3. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED:

 

(1.)      2010 - June 2012: School of Post-graduate studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka   (UNN)

 

(2.)      May 2005 – November 2011: National Postgraduate Medical College of    Nigeria             Through University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu,   Nigeria

 

(3.)      May 2005 – October 2009): West African College of Surgeons Through     University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria

 

(4.)      1994 - 2001: University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN)

 

(5.)      1985 – 2001: Community Secondary School, Ibagwa-Ani, Nsukka, Enugu State,    Nigeria

 

(6.)      1980 – 1985: Central School Okpaligbo, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

 

4. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

 

(1.)      June 2012: Masters in Public Health (MPH)

 

(2.)      November 2011: Fellow, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in         Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FMCOG)

 

(3.)      October 2009: Fellow, West African College of Surgeons (FWACS)

 

(4.)      2001: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

 

(5.)      1991:  Senior School Certificate (SSCE)

 

(6.)      1985: First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC)

 

5. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

 

            Lecturer 1                                                                                                        April 1, 2011

 

            Senior Lecturer                                                                                                Oct. 1, 2014

 

6. WORK/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

(1.)      Senior Lecturer - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical             Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus. October 2014            - till date.

 

(2.)      Lecturer 1 - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical         Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus. April 2011   -           October 2014.

 

(3.)      Honorary Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist - Department of Obstetrics and          Gynaecology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria. August 2011 - till date.

 

(4.)      Hospital Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist - Department of Obstetrics and           Gynaecology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria. April 2011 – August 2011.

 

(5.)      Part-time Hospital Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist - Department of        Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane,     Enugu, Nigeria. November 2010 – till date.

 

(6.)      Hospital Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist - Department of Obstetrics      and      Gynaecology, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu,         Nigeria. June 2010 – November 2010.

 

(7.)      Post Fellowship Senior Registrar - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,     University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria. November      2009 –             June 2010.

 

 (8.)     Senior Registrar - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nigeria         Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria. November 2007 – October 2009.

 

(9.)      Registrar - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,       University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria. November 2004 – October 2007.

 

7. OTHER EXPERIENCES AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

            PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES S

 

            Training in Fistula Repair Surgery (National Fistula Centre Abakiliki, Ebonyi state,             Nigeria)……………………………………………………………………Oct. - Dec. 2013

 

            ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCES

 

(1.)      Acting Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (Acting CMAC)/Director Clinical               Services and    Training…………………February 15-21, 2016 and April 25-May 1, 2016

 

(2.)      Post-Graduate Course Co-ordinator, Institute of Maternal and Child Health, College of    Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (Ituku/Ozalla)…..August 2015 – October      2016

 

(3.)      Associate Director, Institute of Maternal and Child Health, College of         Medicine,        University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (Ituku/Ozalla)…..October 2016….till date

 

8. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

(1.)      Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)

 

(2.)      Medical and Dental Consultant Association (MDCAN)

 

(3.)      Society of Obstetrician and Gynaecology of Nigeria (SOGON)

 

(4.)      West African College of Surgeon (WACS)

 

(5.)      National Postgraduate Medical College (NPMCN)

 

9. AWARDS AND HONORS 

 

(1.)      John J. Sciarra IJGO Prize Paper Award (Honorable Mention) 2015: Best Clinical          Research Article from a Low/Middle-Income Country: “Disrespect and abuse during        facility-based childbirth in a low-income country.” International Journal of Gynecology     and Obstetrics (2015) 128: 110–113

 

(2.)      Best Graduating Student and Best Performance in SSCE (CSSI: 1991)

 

(2.)      MBBS (UNN: 2001)

 

(3.)      FWACS (WACS: 2009)

 

(4.)      FMCOG (NPMCN: 2011)

 

(5.)      MPH (UNN: 2012)

 

(6.)      MPA (NOUN: 2016)

 

10. OTHER PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS

 

FIGO | International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

 

11. COMMUNITY SERVICE/MEMBERSHIP OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

 

(1.)      Enugu State Voluntary Health Service Scheme (VHSS)

 

(2.)      Enugu State/SOGON Partnership scheme for improvement in state’s maternal and child    health services

 

11. EDITORIAL BOARD/REVIEW ACTIVITIES

 

            Managing Editor: International Journal of Medicine and Health Development      (Formally Journal of College of Medicine, UNEC) ….From January 2016 - - till date

 

MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARD

 

(1.)      International Journal of Medicine & Health Development (IJMHDEV)

 

(1.)      Annals of medical and health sciences research (AMHSR)

 

(2.)      Journal of basic and clinical reproductive sciences (JBCRS)

 

12. JOURNALS REVIEWED/TITLE OF PAPER REVIEWED

 

1.         Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Prevalence and Predictors of Intimate Partner       Violence among women attending infertility clinic in south-western Nigeria.

 

2.         BMC Women’s Health:  HPV vaccination in women aged 27 to 45 years:    What   do        general practitioners think?

 

3.         Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice: Does antenatal care attendance          prevent            anaemia in pregnancy at term?

 

4.         Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice: The determinants and significance of             decision-to-intervention time in the outcome of emergency obstetric surgeries in a            low income setting

 

5.         Nigerian Medical Journal: Is Vaginal Delivery Safe after Previous lower     segment           Caesarean section in developing Country?

 

6.         West African Journal of Radiology: Hematocolpometra with hematosalpinx            masquerading as acute urinary retention

 

7.         West African Journal of Radiology: Uterine artery pseudoaneurysm : A case series             and review of literature

 

8.         Infectious disease report: Malarial infection among pregnant women attending        antenatal and maternity clinics of the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, Benue State,            Nigeria

 

9.         Annals of medical and health sciences research: Invito-fertilization: a        prospective     study of cohort of nurses in NAUTH,           Nnewi

 

10.       Nigerian Medical Journal:  Characteristics of Eclampsia in a Tertiary Health          Institution in South-eastern Nigeria

 

11.       Annals of medical and health sciences research: Prevention of mother to    child    transmission of HIV: a review

 

12.       Annals of medical and health sciences research: Peripartum cardiomyopathy: a review

 

13.       Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Socio-biological Determinants of   Labour Pain     Perception and Utilisation of Obstetric Analgesia by Igbo Women of Southeast Nigeria

 

14.       International Journal of English and Linguistics: Reasons for patient visits at a rural GP   practice in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa     

 

15.       International Journal of Medicine and Health Development: Attitude of Healthcare            Providers to adolescent contraception in Abakaliki, South East Nigeria

 

 

 

13. PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY, DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE AND ADVISORY BOARD

 

            Committee work

 

            Currently serves in the following College/Departmental committees:

 

•           Member, Committee on NUC re-accreditation --- For NUC re-accreditation of faculty of medical sciences, college of medicine, UNEC

 

-           Member, Academic committee — Committee for the establishment of institute of   maternal and child health in the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka

 

-           Member, financial committee ---for coordination of all the financial activities of      the       department

 

•           Member, welfare committee---for coordination of staff welfare

 

•           Member, postgraduate residency training committee ---for coordination of postgraduate   residency training and examinations

 

•           Member, research and training committee….for coordination of research and          training in the department

 

.           Member, committee on academic research, FMS, UNEC… for coordination of       research and training in the faculty

 

            Departmental assignments include:

 

•           Coordination of postgraduate residency training programme in the   department of             obstetrics/gynaecology

 

•           Coordination of research activities/clinical training in the department of       obstetrics/gynaecology

 

•           Clinical orientation programme for the new clinical students (faculty assignment)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14. PUBLICATIONS (DR. EMMANUEL O.V. UGWU)…………………………………B

 

1. Eleje GU, Eke AC, Ezebialu IU, Ikechebelu JI, Ugwu EO, Okonkwo OO. Risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2018; 8: CD012464. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012464. pub2. [Epub ahead of print] Review. IF 6.103
2. Joe-Ikechebelu NN, Eleje GU, Ugwu EO, Okafor CD, Nwachukwu CE, Okam PC, Ogboji OE, Ikechebelu JI. A Randomized Controlled Trial on Efficacy and Safety of Trocar-Site Infiltration with Lidocaine for Postoperative Pain Relief after Diagnostic Laparoscopy. Gynecology and Obstetrics Investigations 2018; 24: 1-8. doi: 10.1159/000490565. [Epub ahead of print]. IF 1.03
3. Ugwu EO, Iferikigwe ES, Obi SN, Eleje GU, Ozumba BC. Response to Letter to 'Effectiveness of antenatal perineal massage in reducing perineal trauma and postpartum morbidities: A randomized controlled trial'. Journal of Obstetric and Gynaecological Research 2018; doi: 10.1111/jog.13780. [Epub ahead of print]. IF 1.31
4. Eleje GU, Ezugwu EC, Ugwu EO, Ezebialu IU, Eleje LI, Ojiegbe NO, Ajah LO, Obiora CC, Egeonu RO, Okafor CG, Enyinna PK, Egede JO, Ugochukwu NJ, Asiegbu AC, Ikechebelu JI. Premaquick© versus modified Bishop score for preinduction cervical assessment at term: A double-blind randomized trial. Journal of Obstetrics Gynaecological Research 2018; 44(8): 1404-1414. doi: 10.1111/jog.13691. Epub 2018 Jun 28.
5. Omotowo IB, Meka IA, Ijoma UN, Okoli VE, Obienu O, Nwagha T, Ndu AC, Onodugo DO, Onyekonwu LC, Ugwu EO. Uptake of hepatitis B vaccination and its determinants among health care workers in a tertiary health facility in Enugu, South-East, Nigeria. BMC Infectious Diseases 2018; 28; 18(1):288. doi: 10.1186/s12879-018-3191-9. IF 2.67
6. Ugwu EO, Iferikigwe ES, Obi SN, Eleje GU, Ozumba BC. Effectiveness of antenatal perineal massage in reducing perineal trauma and post-partum morbidities: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Research 2018; 44(7): 1252-1258. IF 1.31
7. Meka IA, Omotowo BI, Ijoma UN, Okoli EV, Nwagha TU, Ndu AC, Obienu O, Onyekonwu CL, Onodugo OD, Ugwu EO. Zero Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Coinfection among a Large Cohort of Health care Workers in Enugu, Nigeria: a Cross-sectional Descriptive Study.  International Journal of Medicine and Health Development 2018; 23(1): 171-175.
8. Onodugo OD, Ulasi II, Ijoma CK, Arodiwe EB, Okoye JU, Ezeala-Adikaibe BA, Onodugo NP, Ugwu EO. Predictors of autonomic dysfunction among predialysis chronic kidney disease patients in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice 2017; 21(7): 932-938. IF 0.713
9. Onwuka CI, Ugwu EO, Onah HE, Obi SN, Menuba IE, Onwuka CI. Patterns of weight gain in Pregnancy and its association with birth weight in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice 2017; 20(6): 754-60. Available at http://www.njcponline.com/aheadofprint.asp. IF 0.713
10. Izuka EO, Ugwu EO, Obi SN, Ozumba BC, Nwagha TU, Obiora-Izuka CE. Prevalence and predictors of placental malaria in human immunodeficiency virus-positive women in Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice 2017; 20(1): 31-36 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27958243  IF 0.713
11. Dim CC, Ugwu EO, Anyaehie UB, Obioha KC. Accuracy of Capillary Blood for the Determination of Packed Cell Volume and Anemia among Pregnant Women in Enugu, Nigeria. International Journal of Medicine and Health Development  2017; 22(2): 68-73.
12. Udealor PC, Ezeome IV, Ugwu EO. Contraceptive Acceptance Pattern and Trend in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria. International  Journal of Medicine and Health Development 2017; 22(2): 113-118.
13. Sando D, Abuya T, Asefa A, Banks KP, Freedman L, Kujawski S,  Markovitz A, Ndwiga C, Ramsey K, Ratcliffe H, Ugwu EO, Warren CE, R. Jolivet RR. Methods Used in Prevalence Studies of Disrespect and Abuse during Facility Based Childbirth: Lessons Learned. Reproductive Health 2017; 11: 14(1): 127. doi:10.1186/s12978-017-0389-z. Review IF 2.209
14. Ezugwu EC, Iyoke CA, Iloghalu IE, Ugwu EO, Okeke TC, Ekwuazi KE. Cesarean section rate and its outcome in a tertiary hospital in Enugu, South-east Nigeria. International Journal Medicine and  Health Development (formerly Journal of College of Medicine) 2017; 22(1): 26 – 30.
15. Onwuka CI, Ugwu EO, Dim CC, Menuba IE, Iloghalu EI, Onwuka CI. Prevalence and Predictors of Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy in South-Eastern Nigeria. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 2016; 10(9): 10-13. IF 1.62 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27790525. IF 1.62
16. Okafor II, Ugwu EO, Obi SN. Disrespect and abuse during facility-based skilled childbirth care in a low- income country. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2015; 128(2): 110-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.08.015. IF 1.704
17. Obioha KC, Ugwu EO, Obi SN, Dim CC, Oguanuo TC. Prevalence and predictors of urinary and anal incontinence after vaginal delivery: a prospective study of Nigerian women. International Urogynecology Journal 2015; 26(9): 1347-54. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25894903 IF 2.16
18. Okafor II, Ugwu EO. Cesarean Delivery for a Life-threatening Preterm Placental Abruption. Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research 2015; 5(6): 466-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27057388
19. Umeh UA, Ugwu EO, Obi SN, Nnagbo JE. Concurrent Occurrence of Uterovaginal and Rectal Prolapse: An Uncommon Presentation. Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research 2015; 5(5): 365-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500795
20. • emmanuelv.ugwu@unn.edu.ng