Location information
Hospital address
Lagos University Teaching Hospital Room 219, Dept of Surgery block Ishaga Road College of Medicine University of Lagos Idi-Araba Lagos, Nigeria 12003 Nigeria
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
This is a teaching hospital
Description
I am a general neurosurgeon with interest in paediatrics. I am the head of Neurosurgery at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria.
We are a team of 3 neurosurgeons with over 30 years of combined specialist practice. I am involved in medical student education at the University of Lagos and also train resident doctors for both the regional and national postgraduate colleges. We typically have 6-8 senior residents at various stages of training at any given time.
I have special interest in endoscopic treatment of disease including Hydrocephalus, pituitary surgery and tumors of the cranial and spinal regions.
Member information
Name
Femi Bankole
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
Neurosurgeon
Subspecialties
- Neurosurgeon with paediatric interest
Languages spoken
- English
- Yoruba
Professional affiliations / memberships
- CAANS
- AANS
- ISPN
- WFNS
Social profiles
Current and past partnerships
Has current partners or past partnership experience in these countries
- India
- Uganda
The CURE children's hospital in Uganda has provided training for surgeons and nurses from our unit in the care of children with pediatric neurosurgical conditons.
We have a partnership with the Neurosurgery department, Apollo hospital, Bangalore where residents from our unit spend 6 months of clinical fellowship in their program
Conditions treated
- Hydrocephalus
- Spinal dysraphism
- Trauma
- Tumor
- Vascular
- Craniofacial
- Spine
- Epilepsy
Equipment used
- Drill
- Microinstruments
- Microscope
- Neuroendoscope Flexible
- Neuroendoscope Rigid
- Spinal instrumentation
- MRI
- CT