Unic Press UK: Nigerian-born Oluyinka Olutoye, who led a team of medical experts that successfully carried on a surgery on an unborn baby is in the news.
Olutoye and his team removed the baby from the mother’s womb, did a surgery on the unborn child to remove a tumour, thereafter returned the baby to the mother’s womb. The baby recuperated in the mum’s womb, and was born without complications.
Oluyinka Olutoye attended the Obafemi Awolowo University Medical School, Howard University College of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
His brief profile that was published on the website of Texas Children’s Hospital reads:
“Dr. Olutoye is Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Fetal Center and fetal surgery team member, as well as a general pediatric surgeon. Dr. Olutoye received his medical degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, in 1988 and his PhD in anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, in 1996.
“He completed his residency in general surgery at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University, and his fellowship in pediatric surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Olutoye is a member of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society and is a Fellow of the Surgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Surgeons; he is also a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons.
“Dr. Olutoye has specialized clinical expertise in fetal and neonatal surgery, with specific interest in congenital diaphragmatic hernia and complex wounds. Dr. Olutoye’s research interests include understanding the role of the fetal inflammatory response in scarless fetal wound healing, development of animal models of congenital anomalies, in utero correction of severe congenital malformations, and the study of endothelial-leukocyte and endothelial-tumor cell interactions with a goal to better understand the mechanisms of tumor metastasis.
“Dr. Olutoye is certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.”
