Dr. Osahon Enabulele, President of the Commonwealth Medical Association, has been elected President-elect of the World Medical Association (WMA).
On Thursday, this was announced in a statement.
His election came after a nearly one-week period of voting by National Medical Associations from throughout the world.
Dr. Osahon Enabulele is the first Nigerian and West African physician to be elected President of the World Medical Association since the global body of all physicians was founded in 1947.
It would be recalled that in the year 2019, Dr Enabulele became the first Nigerian physician to be elected as President of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) since the CMA was founded in November 1962.
Following his election as Chair of SMAC in faraway Chile in the year 2019, Dr. Enabulele also became the first Nigerian physician to become a statutory Council Member of the World Medical Association, as well as the first Nigerian physician to ever chair one of the World Medical Association’s only three standing committees (Socio-Medical Affairs Committee). He was then re-elected as Chair of SMAC for a second term this year (2021).
