Professor Adekunle Adekile

Dr. Adekile graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Hematology at Howard University Hospital in Washington, DC, USA. He was a Fogarty International Fellow in Molecular Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, USA, from 1990 to 1993. Between 1993 and 2024, he was a Professor at Kuwait University. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and at the University of Abuja, Nigeria. He was the Founding Chairman of the Nigerian Sickle Cell Disease Network and the Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria. Dr. Adekile specializes in the clinical, hematological, and molecular aspects of sickle cell disease (SCD) in patients with a high HbF phenotype. He was a consultant to WHO/AFRO on the guidance framework for managing SCD in Africa. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Hemoglobin.