Dr Adedayo Joseph
Director of Research Program and Consultant and Radiation Oncologist
Adedayo Joseph is a clinical radiation oncologist, clinical researcher and leader with experience treating cancers in people of African ancestry and origin including Breast, Prostate, Gynecological, and Gastrointestinal, and Head & Neck malignancies. Her areas of research interest and specialty are in Pediatric, Lung, Brain, and Prostate cancers.
She is the research program director, head of pediatric radiation oncology, and a member of the management team at the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. She is also the co-chair of the center multidisciplinary team as well as the pediatric tumor board.
Dr. Joseph is an avid researcher, who in addition to leading the center research program has over 40 research publications and is the principal investigator for Nigeria on the groundbreaking Prostate cancer HYPOAfrica clinical trial (Hypofractionated radiotherapy for prostate cancer: A feasibility study), in collaboration with centers in Tanzania, South Africa, Netherlands and the United States.
She is a member of the Federal Ministry of Health National Cancer Control Committee, and co-chair of the Education & Training committee of the Association of Clinical and Radiation Oncologists Nigeria (ARCON). She is also a steering committee member of several oncology groups including the U.S. National Institutes of Health NCI Africa Cancer Research and Control ECHO and the Women Leaders in Pediatric Oncology (WLPO) group of the International Society for Pediatric Oncology (SIOP), as well as a member of the African Cancer Coalition (ACC) working on harmonizing cancer treatment guidelines for use in sub-Sharan Africa.
Dr. Joseph is a recipient of multiple awards including the GLI Excellence in Leadership Award, the Her Network Woman of the Year Awards for Philanthropy and Medicine, the Golden Heart Award for efforts & contributions to childhood cancer survival in Nigeria; the LAIT Foundation Education Award; the 2018 True Heroes Award, the UCSNY Leadership in Excellence Award.
Adedayo is an Ashoka Africa Fellow, having received the Ashoka Changemaker Award for her work and efforts in improving pediatric cancer survival in Nigeria. She is also a recipient of the African Cancer Leaders Institute (ACLI) award by the University of Chicago Center for Global Health and the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), a platform for emerging global leaders in oncology.