BRIEF PROFILE OF THE DEAN
Name: Prof. Assumpta UDECHI Chapp-Jumbo
Email: assumpta.chappjumbo@ust.edu.ng;
Phone: +2348034824533
- Consultant Paediatrician (Neonatologist/Paediatric Dermatologist
- MB,BS; University of Nigeria Nsukka (1987)
- Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, Faculty of Paediatrics (1998)
- PGPN (CERT. Paediatric nutrition Boston University School of Medicine (2000)
- Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in the Rivers State University
- Consultant Neonatologist/ Paediatric Dermatologist , Rivers State University Teaching Hospital.
- Was formerly, Associate Dean, Faculty of Clinical Sciences.
- Visiting Professor with Abia State University of the Teaching Hospital
- Adjunct Professor to PAMO University of Medical Sciences.
- Vast medical working experience in the oil and gas sectors.
- Examiner at the West African Post Graduate Medical College since 2008,
- External examiner at the under graduate level to many Medical schools in Nigeria.
- Resource person to the following Accreditation Panels: West African College of Physicians, National Universities Commission and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
- Member of Nigerian Society for Neonatal Medicine,
- Nigerian Association of Dermatologists
- Paediatric Association of Nigeria
- International Society for Paediatric Dermatology among other Professional Associations.
- Widely published in peer reviewed high impact journals and one of her research work on “Onchocerciasis in primary school Children, contributed towards inclusion of children less than 12 years old into the mass ivermectin therapy by the Onchocerciasis Control program (OCP).
