Meet Nigeria’s first female neurosurgeon appointed at US children’s hospital
Dr Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu-Ibrahim, widely recognised as West Africa’s first female certified neurosurgeon and Nigeria’s first female neurosurgeon trained in the country, has been appointed Medical Director of Freeman Children’s Clinic in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
New role in Missouri Aliu-Ibrahim’s appointment as Medical Director of Freeman Children’s Clinic represents another chapter in a career that began with her medical training in Nigeria and has since taken her into the American healthcare system.
Her journey from Ilorin to becoming a pioneering neurosurgeon in Nigeria and later a medical leader in the United States highlights the international trajectory of a doctor who has spent decades breaking new ground.
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