Olusegun Baiyewu, MBBS FMC(Psych) FWACP
(Nigeria), Board of Directors

Olusegun Baiyewu graduated MBBS from the University of Lagos in 1976. He obtained the Fellowship of Nigerian Medical (Postgraduate) College in Psychiatry in 1984; and the Fellowship of West African College of Physicians (Psychiatry) in 1987. In 1981-82 he was Clinical Assistant at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh Scotland and in 1993 was awarded the International Fellowship of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate in the United States. That fellowship year was spent at the Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine studying research methodology in Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Baiyewu has been a member of the IPA since 1992 and has attended most of the biennial Congresses since then additionally he is the assistant editor (Nigeria) of the IPA Bulletin. He is a founding member of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology as well as a member of Alzheimer’s Disease International.

He is a member of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria and with other colleagues started the Geriatric Psychiatry Section in the year 2000.

His research interest is in dementia and depression in the elderly especially behavioral disorders in dementia and mild cognitive impairment. He is an investigator in the Indianapolis-Ibadan Research Project, a collaborative project between Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA and the University of Ibadan Nigeria. This research project started in 1992.

Dr. Baiyewu is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan and a Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria. In 2001, he started the first Geriatric Psychiatric Clinic in Nigeria.

He can be contacted at baiyewuo@skannet.com.  

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