Lateef Akinola Salako NNOM, CON (5 July 1935 – 8 December 2017) was a Nigerian academic who was

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of pharmacology and therapeutics at the

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Early life

Lateef Akinola Salako was born on 5 July 1935 in

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, south-western

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. He attended

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where he obtained the

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in 1953. He trained at the

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before he proceeded to

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where he received a doctorate degree in 1969.

Career

He began his career in 1962, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan where he rose to the position of Senior Registrar in 1965, and in 1966, he became a Medical Research Training Fellow, University of Ibadan. He was a Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics,

for two years, between 1967 and 1969. In 1969, he was appointed as Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan where he rose to the position of senior lecturer in 1970, and in 1973, he was appointed a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology. In 1997, he was elected President of the

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to succeed Professor

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Awards and honor

*Ogun State Distinguished Citizen Award, (1990) *

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(1992) * Commander of the Order of Niger (2004)

References

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