The medical career of Cameroonian doctor Victor Anomah Ngu spans over 55 years and three continents. His cancer research and therapeutic vaccine for use in HIV/AIDS treatment won him international acclaim. He was aslo a former Minister of Health in Cameroon.
Biography :
Victor Anomah Ngu.,b.February 1,1926 at Buea.
Education:
- Government School, Bamenda;
- St. Joseph's College, Sasse, Buea & Government School, Ibadan, Nigeria;
- University of Ibadan: 1948-1950;
- St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London: 1951-1954.
Professional Training & Experience:
- House Surgeon & House Physician, St. Mary's Hospital London: 1954-1955;
- Medical Officer, C.D.C. Hospital, Bota, Victoria, Cameroon: 1956-1957;
- Registrar, Department of Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria: 1957-1958;
- Registrar, Surgery, St. Mary s Hospital & Paddington General Hospital, London: 1958-1959;
- Senior Registrar, Surgery University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria: 1960-1962;
- Lecturer, University of Ibadan, & Consultant Surgeon, University College Hospital, Ibadan: 1962-1964;
- Rockefeller Research Fellowship in Cancer Chemotherapy at Children's Cancer Research Foundation & Harvard Medical School, Boston: 1962-1963;
- Senior Lecturer in Surgery, University of Ibadan: 1964-1965 - Exchange Professor of Surgery, John Hopkins Hospital Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland U.S.A. : March-June 1965;
- Professor & Head of Department of Surgery, University of Ibadan, Nigeria: 1965-1968;
- Professor of Surgery, University of Ibadan, Nigeria: 1968-1972;
- Professor of Surgery, University Centre for Health Sciences, University of Yaounde, Cameroon : October 1971 – September 1974.
Appointments:
- Vice-Chancellor, University of Yaounde: 1974-1982;
- Delegate General for Scientific & Technical Research: July 1982 – February 1984;
- Minister of Public Health: February 1984.
Honours:
- Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Valeur, Cameroun: 1976 ;
- Past Vice-President for Africa of International Union against Cancer: 1966-1970;
- President of Nigeria Cancer Society: 1970-1979;
- President of Association of Surgeons of West Africa : 1972-1974;
- Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in Clinical Cancer Chemotherapy: 1972;
- President of the Association of African Universities: 1981-1982.
Thank you for your contribution to the human race and may God receive you in his bosom.
Rest in perfect peace.
Dulce
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Fading away like the stars of the morning,
ReplyDeleteLosing their light in the glorious sun—
Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling,
Only remembered by what we have done.
Shall we be missed though by others succeeded,
Reaping the fields we in springtime have sown?
No, for the sowers may pass from their labors,
Only remembered by what they have done.
Only the truth that in life we have spoken,
Only the seed that on earth we have sown;
These shall pass onward when we are forgotten,
Fruits of the harvest and what we have done.
wow such am impressive resume. I which there was a venue where young cameroonians such as me wanting to go into the medical field can be educated and become inspired by others such as him.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first I am hearing of this Dr.
May his soul rest in peace
that last para was v touching Dulce, may he RIP indeed. he really was the first among equals.
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