Dr. A. B. Popoola – PCATI-2025

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Workshop 3

💬 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 Title: Learning Management Systems (LMS)- Innovative Tools for Physiology Teaching and Research

🎓 Facilitator: Dr. A. B. Popoola

🏢 Affiliation: Federal University Dutse and EduTechTainMent Ltd.

Profile/Citation

A. B. Popoola is a medical doctor by training and also a self-taught data professional who started out as a health data analyst and web developer. This served to equip him with the necessary analytical skills to succeed in data science, AI and Machine Learning. He believes learning is intentional and a step-wise process. Over the years he has worked hard to acquire the requisite soft and technical skills to make him succeed in this endeavour. Given the importance of domain knowledge, he believes that his domain expertise in healthcare, better positions him to perform as an excellent health analyst and ultimately a data scientist.

He has a passion to work at the intersection between healthcare and technology and strongly believes technology has a potential to solve many problems bedeviling the health sector. He uses his tech skills to impact not only the healthcare delivery system, but also the teaching, mentorship and training of future healthcare professionals.

He is a member of The Physiological Society, and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA). He is also a member, Blacks in Technology, Nigeria, and Data Science Network (DSN). He is a DataCamp Classrooms Ambassador, Federal University Dutse and sole administrator of DataCamp Classrooms scholarships at FUD, mentoring, teaching and administering DataCamp scholarships to students of the university to help them gain globally relevant data skills. In addition, he is also a mentor to many other students, and staff members, both within and outside the university.

A. B. Popoola has a passion to learn, teach, impart knowledge and network with like minds both in the educational, health, and the IT domain. Thus he Founded EduTechTainMent Ltd (ETTM), an EdTech company that is involved in leveraging the use of technology in education. He is the developer and administrator of EduTechTainMent forum, EduTechTainMent Learning Management System (LMS) and EduTechTainMent YouTube channel.

Asides from his clinical work, he also lectures MBBS, Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, Environmental Health, Public Health, and Nursing students of the College of Medicine, Federal University Dutse (FUD). In addition, he lectures postgraduate students in the MSc, MHE, PGDHE programs of the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, FUD.

Over the years, A. B. Popoola has acquired requisite clinical, administrative, technical, hard, and soft skills that are invaluable to his work and enables him excel at what he loves doing.

He has worked in several leadership and administrative capacities both professionally at work and in community service. He has served in various capacities, including, but not limited to: Member, LOC, College of Medicine MDCN accreditation for FUD; Member, LOC, Federal University Dutse (FUD), during the National Universities Commission (NUC) Resource Verification Committee visit; Member, LOC, Neurological Society Annual Conference held at College of Medicine, FUD; Chairman, University Health Services, FUD Clinical Presentation Committee; Chairman, Tertiary Institutions Social Health Insurance Scheme (TISHIP), FUD; consecutively, member, 4th to 7th FUD Central Convocation committee, and consecutive member of the 2nd to 9th FUD Convocation Medical sub-committee.

He is also the current Chairman, Offa Descendants’ Union (ODU), the Assistant Secretary, Yoruba Community Association, Jigawa State Branch; the Financial Secretary, Kwara State Association, Jigawa State Branch and several others.

He is also the ICT consultant to the Nigerian Medical Association, Jigawa State Branch and a long time member of the CME committee of the association, where his skills and knowledge have proven invaluable. He is also the ICT consultant to several other organizations.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

1️⃣ MBBS

2️⃣ MSc. Human Physiology

3️⃣ Google Certified Data Analyst

4️⃣ ALX-T Udacity Certified Data Analyst

5️⃣ I4GxZuri Full Stack Software Developer

6️⃣ IBM Certified in Python For Data Science and AI

7️⃣ Mckinsey Forward Alumnus

8️⃣ INCO Green Digital Skills Certification

9️⃣ DataCamp Certified in AI Fundamentals

1️⃣0️⃣ DataCamp Certified in AI Literacy

1️⃣1️⃣ Arewa Data Science Certified in Deep Learning with Pytorch

1️⃣2️⃣ Hamoye Data Science Fellow ’22 and ’25

1️⃣3️⃣ DLYA Data Science and Machine Learning Fellowship Graduate

1️⃣4️⃣ Udacity Certified, AWS Machine Learning Foundations

1️⃣5️⃣ IBM Certified Data Analyst (In view)

1️⃣6️⃣ DataCamp Certified Data Scientist (In view)

Leadership Role(s)/Position(s) and Membership(s)

1️⃣ Founder: EduTechTainMent (ETTM)

2️⃣ The Ag. Director, University Health Services, Federal University Dutse (August 2021 to September 2024)

3️⃣ Head of Clinical, University Health Services, Federal University Dutse (2017 – 2021)

4️⃣ Adj. Lecturer, Dept. of Human Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, FUD

5️⃣ Member, Data Science Network

6️⃣ Member, Blacks in Technology

7️⃣ Member, Nigerian Medical Association