Prof T.A. Adeyemo

She is a Professor of Hematology & Consultant-Specialist hematopathologist to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Her research and clinical interests are in benign blood diseases, sickle cell disease, inherited bleeding disorders and blood transfusion.
She is the Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of several funded collaborative research in SCD, anemia and hemophilia including low dose aspirin for preventing intrauterine growth restriction and preeclampsia in sickle cell pregnancy (PIP-SICKLE): a randomized controlled trial, Intravenous versus oral iron for iron deficiency anaemia in pregnant and post-partum Nigerian women (IVON & IVON-PP): open labelled, randomized controlled trials and Assessing Combination Hydroxyurea and Exogenous Erythropoietin in Sickle Cell Disease (ACHiEvE-SCD). She is the Principal Investigator for the Sickle Cell Disease Registry, Nigeria, with the objective to collect real-time, multi-center, prospective, and longitudinal data of patients with SCD to provide local evidence to improve the quality of care of persons living with SCD and provide data for advocacy.

Prof. Adeyemo has authored and co-authored over 90 publications in both local and international peer-reviewed Journals.