Speaker: Dr. Adesola Christiana Odole
Adesola Christiana Odole is presently an associate professor at the Department of Physiotherapy, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and Honorary Consultant in Orthopaedic Physiotherapy at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. She started her career as a clinical physiotherapist in 1991 following her first degree in physiotherapy in 1989 and rose to the post of senior clinician at University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. She transitioned to physiotherapy education after obtaining her Ph.D. in 2007.
Odole is the chair of the e-learning committee at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is passionate about teaching and takes each course with her students as a learning journey. Her teaching, scholarship and clinical practice have been geared towards musculoskeletal health, health outcomes assessment, chronic non-communicable disease epidemiology, physiotherapy education and digital health interventions. She has avid interest in advancing health and promoting health outcomes though education, advocacy and research.
Through knowledge innovativeness, she worked with other researchers to develop a Nigerian culture-sensitive and environment-friendly standardized health measuring scale for knee/hip osteoarthritis, the Ibadan Knee/Hip Osteoarthritis Outcome Measure (IKHOAM) – the first patient-reported outcome measure in Nigeria. She is also passionately interested in improved access to health care for the marginalized and underserved communities through digital health interventions. She is a strong advocate for inclusion of persons with disabilities in climate change.