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Douglas Emeka Okor
Institution Attended: University of Benin
Douglas Emeka Okor (now Nigerian based) Neurosurgeon, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker and Youth Empowerment Mentor. Early years and primary medical degree was in Benin City Nigeria. His Specialist Medical training was in the United Kingdom.
Douglas is a man passionate about Nigeria. He is Co-founder and Chair of the Ashanti Graham Health and Education Initiative Foundation (AGHEIF) - a charity with the vision "21st Century Health Care for Nigeria." AGHEIF’s goal is collaborating with individuals, groups, government and the private sector, for the development of a new Nigerian health care delivery system comparable to that in nations with developed economies.
So far, AGHEIF has been involved in not only donating sophisticated and highly needed equipment worth millions of Naira to teaching hospitals in South-Southern Nigeria, but also in human capacity building, knowledge and skills transfer.
He is the current Patron of the Nigerian Society University of Sheffield.