Prof.Oladele Simeon OLATUNYA is a Professor of Paediatrics and Child health at the College of Medicine , Ekiti State University and Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
He was born at Oye-Ekiti in oye Local Government of Ekiti State on the 31st of march 1971. He had a Bachelor of Medicine , Bachelor of Surgery degree at the University of ilorin in year 2000. He holds Fellowship of Postgraduate Medical College in Paediatrics(FMCPaed). He has a PhD in clinical pathology from the University of Campinas, Brazil. He formely held the position of head of pshysiology Department Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. He is currently the CMAC of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital and also the Postgraduate Studies Coordinator. He is happily married with kids.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN)
• The International Paediatric Association (IPA)
• International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP)
• Sickle Cell Disease Network & Support Society of Nigeria (SCSSN)
• Nigerian Society of Paediatric Oncology
• Nigerian Medical Association
• Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria
• African Nutrition Networks (Nestle Nutrition International Africa Chapter)
• Nigerian Society of Paediatric Infectious diseases

AWARDS AND ACADEMIC PRIZES

• Listed among SCIVAL`s top 200 published Nigeria authors (2016 to 2022 ranking) by SCIVAL- Elsever website: www.scival.com (June 2023)
• Winner of 2017 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Conference Abstract Achievement Award, (57th ASH Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2017)
• The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq,) Portuguese: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, earlier Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas) Grant No:2015/141693-0 (2015)
• Winner of Emzor Prize for the best graduating candidate in the Faculty of Paediatrics in 2011 National Postgraduate Medical college of Nigeria
• Winner of Margaret Kaine Prize for the best Dissertation in FMCpaed. Part II final Examination of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (Faculty of Paediatrics, 2011)
• Winner of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) State award Akwa Ibom State 2002 service year in Nigeria
• Winner of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Local Government merit award Uyo Local government area, Akwa Ibom State. 2002 service year
• Passed the High School Certificate Examination with Distinction (WAEC 1988)