October 08, (THEWILL) –Â Dr Osahon Enabulele, former President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has emerged as President-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA).
The incumbent President of Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) won the election after almost one week of voting by participating medical associations from various countries across the world.
Enabulele is the first West African to be elected WMA President since the world body was established in 1947.
He defeated Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Nizami, a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and President of the Pakistan Medical Association.
In 2019, he became the first Nigerian physician to be elected as President of CMA since the body was founded in November 1962.
Also in the same year, Dr Enabulele became the first Nigerian physician to become a statutory Council Member of WMA, as well as the first Nigerian physician to ever chair one of the only three standing committees – Socio-Medical Affairs Committee (SMAC) of the association.
Enabulele, who was re-elected to chair SMAC in 2021, will give his presidential acceptance speech on October 15 in London during the General Assembly of the World Medical Association.
The Chief Consultant Family Physician will lead the WMA between the 2022 – 2023 executive year.
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