Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa is a professor of Surgery at the University of Ibadan, and an Honorary Consultant Urologist to the University College Hospital, Ibadan (with special focus on Prostate Cancer, Reconstruction and Endourology). His academic and professional careers span surgery, urology, molecular biology, medical education, and health systems research and development. He is the Immediate-Past Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and has been an Adviser on health-professionals training and health systems development to several African countries, the WHO, and the United States and Norwegian Governments. He is currently the President of the African Medical Schools Association; and Chairman, Membership Section of Africa and the Middle-East, of the Societe Internationale d’Urologie. He has a Patent and over 150 publications and 200 national and international research presentations. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academies of Science; Medicine, and Medicine Specialties.