Ayodele Olajide Falase

Ayodele was born on 4 January 1944 in the village of Erin-Oke, Oriade local government of Osun state, Nigeria.

Ayodele completed his education in the following schools:^[2]

• Secondary education at Remo Secondary School, Segamu, Lagos State, Nigeria - 1956
• Igbobi College, Yaba - 1957–62
• University of Ibadan - 1963–68
• Royal College of Physicians, UK - 1971
• National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria - 1976
• Royal College of Physicians of London - 1982

Ayodele started his career at University College Hospital, Ibadan in 1968–69, immediately after graduation from the same university. He became a house physician in 1969-70 and a registrar in 1971–72, in the same college hospital. He held several positions on this career path until he rose to become a professor of cardiology and founder of Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR).^[4] He was awarded the Nigerian National Merit Award in 2005 and currently one of the four Emeritus Professors at the Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan.^[5][6] An Introduction to Clinical Diagnosis in the Tropics, a popular clinical clerkship book among Nigerian clinical medical students was first published by him in 1986.^[7]

Ayodele's publications include subjects on:

• Cardiomyopathy ^[8][9][10]
• Peripartum heart disease^[11]
• Infectious and dilated cardiomyopathy^[12]
• Hypertension^[13][14][15]
• Heart failure^{[16][17][18][19]}
• Ischaemic Heart disease ^[20][21]
• Congenital heart diseases ^[22]

The human heart fountain of life: inaugural lecture delivered on Tuesday 27 January 1981

An introduction to clinical diagnosis in the tropics(1986)^[23]

Cardiovascular disease(1987)