Dr Osahon Enabulele Elected President, World Medical Association
Dr Osahon Enabulele, Former President of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has emerged as the President-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA), following an almost one week period of voting by participating National Medical Associations around the world.
Osahon Enabulele is a Chief Consultant Family Physician, and the current president of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA). He contended against Dr Muhammad Ashraf Nizami, a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and the President of the Pakistan Medical Association.
Enabulele will be superintending over the World Medical Association during the 2022 – 2023 Executive year.
A press statement from the global association revealed that his victory was a testimony to his global acceptability and recognition of his many years of hard work within the WMA.
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With this historic development, Enabulele has once again attained another milestone by being the first-ever Nigerian and West African physician to be elected President of the World Medical Association since the global body of all physicians in the world was established in the year 1947.
Dr Enabulele has created several initiatives and made significant contributions to the advancement of the medical profession and healthcare system at local, national and international levels.
In 2019, he became the first Nigerian physician to be elected as President of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) since the CMA was founded in November 1962.
In the same year, he also became the first Nigerian physician to become a statutory Council Member of the World Medical Association, as well as the first Nigerian physician to ever chair one of the only three standing committees (Socio-Medical Affairs Committee) of the World Medical Association, following his election as Chair of SMAC in Chile in the year 2019.
Dr Enabulele was subsequently re-elected this year (2021) for a 2nd term as Chair of SMAC.
The physician is expected to give his acceptance speech during the London 2021 General Assembly of the World Medical Association slated for Friday, 15th October 2021.
Congratulations Dr Osahon Enabulele.