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Aderonke Ademefunade
6 hours ago
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Dr. Salamat Aliu: Nigeria's 1st Female Neurosurgeon Lost To The US (Pics)
Nigeria lost its first-ever female neurosurgeon, Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu, to the U.S. where she retrained as a pediatric resident, and now works at a Children Clinic in Missouri. She was a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital 🏥
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Confirmed: Former Nigerian Neurosurgeon, Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu-Ibrahim explains why she left Nigeria.
“I left because I wanted better opportunities and professional growth. I wanted to practice Neurosurgery in U.S. but I didn’t match. So I decided to go for Pediatrics, a field I also love.
After my pediatric residency training, I needed to find a job in an area designated medically underserved due to my visa type. Joplin, Missouri, fits that description, and that is how I found my way to Freeman Health System. This is my home now.”
PS: She’s not currently practicing pediatric neurosurgery.
Pediatric neurosurgery is a subspecialty of neurosurgery, not pediatrics. To become a pediatric neurosurgeon in the U.S., she would first have needed to complete a neurosurgery residency and then undertake additional fellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery. Which she didn’t.
She now lives in Missouri with her husband and three kids.
