Dr. Chineme Henry ANYABOLU
Dr. Chineme Henry ANYABOLU
MBBS (Port Harcourt); FWACP (Paediatrics); Dip. Paed. GHN (Cape Town)
Email: henrypaediatrics@yahoo.com
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, Nigeria Dr. Chineme Henry Anyabolu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC). He obtained his MBBS degree from the University of Port Harcourt in 2000, and was admitted as a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (Paediatrics) in April 2009, following postgraduate clinical training at OAUTHC. In 2013, he was awarded an ESPGHAN Fellowship to undertake a Diploma in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Research Interests
Dr. Anyabolu’s research interests span two broad intersecting areas: neonatology and newborn care and paediatric nutrition/infections. Within paediatric infectious diseases, his work has focused particularly on HIV infection in children — including nutritional status, micronutrient deficiencies, infant feeding practices of HIV-positive mothers, and oral health manifestations in HIV-infected children. He has also investigated neonatal sepsis, rotavirus-associated diarrhoea, and the use of simplified antibiotic regimens for serious bacterial infections in young infants in low-resource settings. In neonatology, he has been a site investigator in several landmark multi-country WHO-coordinated clinical trials, including studies on Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), antenatal corticosteroid therapy for preterm birth, and outpatient management of neonatal bacterial infections. In paediatric gastroenterology, his work includes studies on celiac disease autoimmunity in children with type 1 diabetes, paediatric endoscopy access in low-resource settings, and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.