Dr. Sylvanus A. Ayeni
Honorary Medical Director, IME
Dr. Sylvanus Adetokunboh Ayeni is president and founder of Pan Africa Children Advocacy Watch (PACAW) Inc. (https://www.pacaw.org), a non-profit organization involved in the education of children in Sub-Saharan Africa, currently mainly in Nigeria. He has been involved in development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa in the education and healthcare sectors for several decades. He has participated in medical missions to countries in Africa and has been visiting faculty as a neurosurgeon. As a neurosurgeon in the USA, he worked in the private sector, as a civilian neurosurgeon for the US Navy (for three years), and also in academia.
Dr. Ayeni was born and raised in Nigeria and is a 1972 graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos. After undergoing general surgery training in New York City from 1976 to 1978, he trained in neurosurgery at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison, Wisconsin. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
He has been a guest speaker at meetings of national and international associations including keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Association of Jamaica in 2005. He is the author of the non-fiction book: RESCUE THYSELF: Change In Sub-Saharan Africa Must Come From Within.
