Mr Enabulele, 50 years, who currently serves as the
president of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) is the first to be so
elected from the West African subregion.
He takes over from Heidi Stensmyren of Sweden as the
president-elect, as the latter takes over from the association’s incumbent president,
David Barbe, of the United States as the WMA President for the 2021-2022
executive year.
In the WMA, a new president first emerges as president-elect
and remains in that capacity for one year before taking over as full-fledged
president.
The newly president elect, Enabulele will resume as the
president in October, 2022.
Mr Enabulele beat his opponent, a Pakistani physician and
professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Muhammad Nizami, in an online election that
was held for about one week.
Mr Nizami is currently the President of the Pakistan Medical
Association.
About Enabulele
A consultant family physician at the University of Benin
Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Edo State, Mr Enabulele was also the first Nigerian
to be elected chairman of Socio-Medical Affairs Committee (SMAC) of the World
Medical Association (WMA).
Mr Enabulele rose to the position of President-elect after
more than 14 years of his involvement in the activities at the global level.
In 2019, he also became the first Nigerian physician to be
elected as President of the Commonwealth Medical Association since the body’s
creation in November, 1962.
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