Dr. Abdul-Warith Akinshipo

Education / Training

Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honours

• 2007 - 2015 Resident, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi- Araba
• 2019 – till date: Senior Lecturer, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology/Biology
• 2023 - till date: Honorary consultant, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH)
• Other Experience and Professional Bodies Association:
• 2012 – Present: International Association of Oral Pathologist/Medicine (IAOP)
• 2008 – Present: International Association of Dental Research (IADR)
• 2016- 2019: Secretary, International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Nigerian

Honours

• 2018 Travel grant to 2nd AFREhealth symposium, Durban South Africa 5th – 8th August, 2018.
• 2022 James Hakim leadership Development Program Scholar
• 2024 2024 IADR Centennial Travel Award for New Investigators
• 2024 Travel grant for Internship at the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health: How to conduct and publish systematic reviews and meta-analyses. University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (sponsored)
• 2025 Best presenter award at the 2024 Scientific and Annual Conference of the Faculty of Dental Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos (Oral presentation).
• Contribution to Science
• Ameloblastoma:
• Akinshipo AO, Sivaramakrishnan G, Enwuchola J, Effiom O, Adeoye J, Ramanathan A, Chaurasia A. Unraveling the Mysteries of Ameloblastoma in African Population: A Comprehensive Analysis of 371 Cases from Clinical, Radiological, and Histopathological Perspectives. Head and Neck Pathology. 2025 Jan 7;19(1):2.
• Akinshipo AO, Salu OB, Oluwarotimi C, Anyanwu RA, Aforka EE, Effiom OA, Omilabu SA. Low Detection of High-risk Human Papilloma Virus in Individuals with Ameloblastoma in a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Annals of African Medicine. 2024 Jul 1;23(3):406-14.
• Akinshipo AO, Shanti RM, Adisa AO, Effiom OA, Adebiyi KE, Carrasco LR, Kaleem A, Arotiba GT, Akintoye SO. time to Recurrence of Ameloblastoma and Associated Factors in a Multi-institutional Black Patient Cohort." J Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2024): 1-10.
• Effiom OA, Ogundana OM, Akinshipo AO, Akintoye SO. Ameloblastoma: current etiopathological concepts and management. Oral Dis. 2018;24(3):307-316
• Head and Neck cancers
• Folorunso SO, Akinshipo Abdulwarith, Adeniyi AE, Aworinde HO, Awotunde JB. Oral cavity carcinoma detection using BAT algorithm-optimized machine learning models with transfer learning and random sampling. Comput Biol Med. 2025 May 5;192(Pt B):110250. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.110250. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40328028.
• Akinshipo AO, Taiwo AO, Abdullahi K, Fatimah AY, Sahabi SM, Ahmed MA. Head and neck cancers: An histopathologic review of cases seen in three Tertiary Hospitals in Northwestern Nigeria. J Clin Sci 2017;14:113-8
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adeoye J, Chaurasia A, Akinshipo AO, Suleiman IK, Zheng LW, Lo IW, Pu JJ, Bello S, Oginni FO, Agho ET, Braimah RO, and Sue YXl. A Deep Learning System to Predict Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Leukoplakia. Journal of Dental Research. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/00220345241272048
• Adeoye J, Akinshipo A, Koohi-Moghadam M, Thomson P and Su Y-X (2022) Construction of machine learning-based models for cancer outcomes in low and lower-middle income countries: A scoping review. Front. Oncol. 12:976168.
• Adeoye J, Akinshipo A, Thomson P, Su YX. Artificial intelligence-based prediction for cancer-related outcomes in Africa: Status and potential refinements. Journal of Global Health. 2022;12.
• List of Published Work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1jqw9rpAq8h5c/bibliography/50304358/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
• ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1182-107X
• Linkedin : linkedin.com/in/wariz-akinshipo-741b9aa
• Research Support
• NIH/FORGATY INTERNATIONAL D43TW010134 (PI: Ogunsola FT) 2015-2020
• BRAINS mentored research award. 2017/2018
• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CHRISTENSEN PROFESSORSHIP GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR NIGERIAN DENTAL SCHOLARS. 2021
• THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE (KE) FUNDING EXERCISE STRATEGIC IMPACT SCHEME. 2022/23
• NORTHWESTERN/NIGERIA RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN HIV AND MALIGNANCIES (NN-HAM) Grant (No. D43TW009575). PhD Award.