Narrative biosketch of Clement Adebamowo BM ChB Honors., ScD, FWACS, FACS, FASCO
Dr. Adebamowo is currently Tenured Professor and Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). He is Associate Director (Population Science), and Associate Director (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) at the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC), Baltimore. Dr. Adebamowo established and chaired the Nigerian National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) from 2007 to 2017.
Dr. Adebamowo studied medicine at the University of Jos, Nigeria; Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the University College Hospital, Ibadan Nigeria; Renal Transplantation at Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India and Nutrition Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Harvard University, Boston. He is a Life Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (WACS), Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Fellow of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He was a Lecturer at the University of Ibadan (UI) and Consultant Surgeon at the UCH, Ibadan, Nigeria. He became a Professor of Surgery at UI in 2000 and retired in 2009 as Director of the Institute of Advanced Medical Training and Research (IAMRAT), UI, Nigeria.
Dr. Adebamowo established NIH-funded, full scholarship, multidisciplinary, postgraduate research ethics, and responsible conduct of research (RCR) training programs at UI and University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Nigeria. He has provided over 150,000 short term online research ethics and RCR training to Nigerian researchers and students through collaboration with BRANY-CITI, New York. He conducts research on improving knowledge of genomics among African populations through identification of local linguistic and cultural concepts of heritability to aid comprehension of genomics research in Africa (INDIGENE Study). He developed an online database of words, idioms, adages, sayings, and proverbs that can be used to improve informed consent in genomics research conducted in African communities. He also leads the Data Science for Health in Africa (DS-I Africa) initiative which conducts research on how to bridge gaps in ethical oversight of data science health research in Nigeria and other African countries.
Dr. Adebamowo conducts research on the environmental and genomic epidemiology of breast and cervical cancer, cancer prevention, and research ethics. His research projects are focused on using genomics, microbiomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and metatranscriptomics to improve knowledge of the mechanisms of cancers, identify new methods of diagnosis, and cancer prevention. He is the PI of the African Collaborative Center for Genomics and Microbiome Research and the African Female Breast Cancer Epidemiology. He conducts prevention clinical trials on cervical cancer prevention and treatment among African American women living with HIV in Baltimore and investigates the determinants of uptake of HPV vaccination, use of health messaging and chatbot interventions to increase vaccine uptake and reduce vaccine hesitancy among African Americans. He created the Para-PACHE program which links UMGCCC faculty with cancer researchers at Maryland’s Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCU) for joint research and training programs.
