About Us

Our Vision
To provide selflessly, world-class tertiary medical care on the Nigerian soil in a gradual three-phase program of a twenty-year development plan and be sustained thereafter for many generations, outliving the founders

Our Mission
Engage in scientific and educational purposes

Assist individuals in developing countries with complicated medical conditions to stratify their diagnostic work-up and management based on the resources available to them in their countries and abroad
 
Assist short-time visitors to the United States navigate health care maze and stratify their diagnostic work-up and management in a timely and cost-effective manner
 
Procure and solicit donation of medical equipment and supplies for medical facilities in developing countries to meet their health care needs in a timely and cost effective way

To promote cooperation and understanding between United States and developing
countries in the medical care and treatment of the citizen of developing countries

To promote medical care projects that will improve the quality of health care in developing countries

Our Values
Our first obligation is to the patient and service above self

To provide access to the services even to the average Nigerian as much as feasible within the scope of the National Health Insurance Scheme regardless of socio-economic status

There shall be no financial benefit to any staff beyond reasonable compensation and only such returns to this institution as will safeguard its future for future generations and be self-sustaining as this cause is greater than us

The resources of this Foundation shall be used only in achieving the purposes stated above and keeping with the highest moral, ethical and legal standards. In keeping with our pledge to transparency, accountability and fiscal responsibility, audited annual financial report is open to the public


Our History
The Nigerian-American Medical Foundation is a product of its time. The brain drain of highly-trained medical specialists and sub specialists with the infrastructural ebb in the past twenty-five years has created a generational vacuum of adequate tertiary care in Nigeria. This is a patriotic response and a humanitarian calling to the pain and suffering of at this time in Nigeria’s history to the pain and suffering of sick fellow countrymen and women, young and old, requiring tertiary care not available in Nigeria. Health is indeed a human right and a sacred duty of good governance in any society. We have deferred primary and secondary tiers of health care delivery system to others already in the system and have decided to focus on tertiary care which appears to be dire need currently in Nigeria as a vision of giving something back to society to reverse the brain drain to a brain trust. Many travel abroad at higher expense, some return with no adequate follow-up care. There are many cancer survivors who return from abroad particularly breast and prostate cancer patients who require follow-up laboratory tests and needless frequent trips abroad had those test available on the Nigeria soil. And there are the very many who cannot afford the cost of seeking tertiary medical care overseas. As apparently healthy individuals get older, most seek routine medical evaluation abroad in Europe and North America. Also many with complicated medical conditions do not have adequate resource on ground to stratify the diagnostic work-up and management base in an organized, effective, comprehensive multi-specialty setting: all in a single location in Nigeria. This idea was a focus of several inter-personal deliberations among very few like-minded Physicians in North America with strong input from prominent Nigerian-based Physicians for a stellar practice. The quest for early disease diagnosis and the need to share medical skills of Nigerian-born Physicians in North America with Nigerian Physicians practicing in Nigeria became germane. Careful planning of a structure that would sustain itself was strongly considered and emphasis were laid on what is workable in the Nigerian setting. After mapping out a gradual three-phased twenty-year development plan and road map, like minds of about ten doctors were formally constituted into a Board of Trustees and legal incorporation both in Nigeria and Unites States initiated. Personal donations came from the founding members as initial seed endowments. From the


 

Board of Trustees
Rex O. Ajayi, MD, FACS
CHAIRMAN
Urology/Minimally Invasive Surgery
Albany, Georgia

Adekunle Fajana, MD, FACP
VICE CHAIRMAN
Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Worcester, Massachusetts

Omolaja Ibraheem, MD, FACP
TREASURER
Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry
Long Beach, California

Olayiwola Kassim, MD, FCAP
Pathology, Anatomic/Clinical
Toronto, Canada

Adeniyi Ogunkoya, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine, Allergy/Asthma
Irvington, New Jersey

Adebusola Onayemi, MD, FRCPC
Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine
Barrie, Canada

Adeyinka Shoroye, MD, FAAP
SECRETARY
Pediatrics, Allergy/Asthma
Riverside, California
 


Stella Ejiofoh-Alli, MD, FFARCSI
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, Foundation Medical Associates(namfi sub-specialty
foundation practice)
Ped. Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine
Philadelphia, Penn. / Lagos, Nigeria
modest beginnings, eminent and highly regarded Nigerians were consulted for wise counsel and a repertoire of ideas from an informal honorary advisory body from both sides of the Atlantic. The main goal is to fill the vacuum of medical diagnostic tertiary care on the Nigerian soil thereby improving disease diagnostic capabilities and patient care. The planning stage also somewhat coincided with an historical landmark of health care development in Nigeria: the formal launching of the National Health Care Insurance Scheme by the Federal Government of Nigeria in June 2005 by the President of Nigeria and specifically the third-party payor mechanism and provision of a fee-for-service structure in the tertiary health care phase (both laboratory/imaging tests and specialist consultation services) in a managed care setting.

This innovation, solely on tertiary care, is arguably the largest specialty/subspecialty network group in Nigeria currently with about 40 Physicians in the Practice model and to expand to about 200 to 500 physicians in the next five to ten years. The medical staff model with doctors mostly from United States and Canada, experienced and eminent Nigeria-based Physicians including retired Nigerian medical professors, all Specialists and on-site in Lagos year-round, on a rotating schedule in over 50 medical and surgical specialties and sub-specialties. The project is currently designed for non-emergencies. There is special referral mechanism in our telemedicine system with the finest doctors across the United States for second opinions, diagnostic puzzles and further consultations. The Foundation will operate as a charitable trust in a non-profit model that is planned to be self-sustaining, fitted to Nigerian needs and evolving over time from the present modest Diagnostic Center temporarily located in Ikeja that opens its doors in January 2007 to a world-class institution at a permanent site in a gradual twenty-year development plan.
 


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