Skip to main content

DR. OLUYINKA O. OLUTOYE, MD, Ph.D.

DR. OLUYINKA O. OLUTOYE, MD, Ph.D.: Is a Nigerian Physician, who carried out a delicate surgery on a 23 weeks old foetus who was removed from the mother’s womb, operated upon, and returned to the womb to heal and continue to grow until the baby girl was born at 36 weeks healthy and naturally.

Baby Lynlee Hope suffered from a tumor known as Sacrococcygeal Teratoma.
According to CNN, in 2016, Margaret Boemer went in for a routine ultrasound at 16 weeks that revealed a rare birth defect. At 23 weeks, she and her baby, named LynLee, underwent a five-hour fetal surgery.

Dr. Olunyinka and Dr. Darrell Cass, co-led a team of 21 doctors to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a large tumor from the baby’s tailbone. To safely remove the tumor, the surgical duo removed the baby from the uterus for 20 minutes. Then, they placed LynLee back into the womb for the remainder of the gestation period, after which she was born healthily.

Following his role in a groundbreaking surgery, Olutoye was appointed Surgeon-In-Chief at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the U.S. He now leads one of the largest children’s hospital surgery departments in the world

Dr. Oluyinka is a Co-Director of the Texas Children's Fetal Center at Texas Children's Hospital. He is also a Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics, at Baylor College of Medicine.
WATCHING his presentation at TEDxTalk in Virginia, you will understand why "We have a genius" living among us.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE THOMAS SANKARA STORY - AFRICA'S CHE GUEVARA

In the early hours of a night in 1987, one of Africa’s youngest leaders, President Thomas Sankara, was murdered and quietly and quickly buried in a shallow grave. He was only 37 years old.  But first who is Thomas Sankara?  Born Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara on 21 December 1949 in Yako French Upper Volta. He was the third of ten children to Joseph and Marguerite Sankara.  In his teens, the bright Sankara an excellent student in mathematics and French defied his parents' wish to become a catholic priest and opted for the military that was very popular at the time.  So, at age 17, he took the military entrance exams, passed, and joined the Kadiogo military academy. He met Adama Touré, the academy's director who taught history and geography and was known for having progressive ideas. Adama Toure invited a few of his brightest and more political students, among them Sankara, to join informal discussions about imperialism, neocolonialism, socialism, and communism, the Sovie...
Post a Comment
Read more

GREENSTEDS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

GREENSTEDS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: Close to 84 years ago (1936), a school that prides itself in promoting ‘passion and pride’ in all aspects of school life through a team of highly professional and dedicated teachers and staff was established. Note: Read to the end, though this is a high end school whose fees can easily run into hundreds of thousands they offer the prestigious Beacon Scholarship a scholarship for their students with strong leadership qualities. TO THE PARENT: They promise that once you give them your child, they embark on preparing them for life that when they leave, they will continue to dream the biggest dreams, and not settle for second best. LOCATION: 16km from Nakuru, 140 km from Nairobi, and just a few minutes from Nakuru National Park and within easy reach of lake Naivasha, Elementaita, Bogoria and Baringo. SCHOOL CATERGORIES Early Years Junior School Senior School A levels EARLY YEARS: They follow the revised English Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework,...
Post a Comment
Read more

KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL UGANDA

KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF UGANDA: A school where children flourish....all of them! T HE VISION: “to educate today’s children for tomorrow’s world” Popularly known as KISU, was established in 1993 as Kabira International School with 67 students. The school has since grown, sits on 14 acres piece of land in Kampala, and it currently accommodates about 460 students from 60 nationalities though it has a capacity of 1000 students.  It offers an international education to students between 2 and 19 years of age. The school is privately owned with an Advisory Board of Governors and the day to day running of the school is managed by the Director. Students participate in an extensive range of extracurricular activities including outdoor education and overseas trips, to diverse destinations such as The UK, France, Italy, Mount Kilimanjaro, and a yearly ski trip in Europe. The holistic education also fosters involvement in community-building activities. Message from the Director A ...
Post a Comment
Read more