Tunde Olobatoke

Tunde Olobatoke is a medical student at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos. He was born and raised in Kogi State, Nigeria, where he had his primary and secondary education and graduated in 2010 and 2016 respectively as the best graduating student. He then proceeded to Bowen University, Iwo, for his Diploma in Science where he claimed all distinctions. He is very passionate about neurosurgery. At first, he was caught in awe at the success story of Dr. Benjamin Carson. His family background quite seems similar to that of this great neurosurgeon. Tunde saw neurosurgery as a way of escape from the poverty wretched life of his parent. This led him to want to follow the path of this great surgeon. Following this path, he became a medical student and then a will soon be Doctor, and ultimately a renowned neurosurgeon someday. However, as he dives more into this journey, and having had the privilege to rotate in a neurosurgery department, he saw neurosurgery as a way of becoming like God, helping people, and healing people. He is fascinated by the complexity of the brain, about the possibility of making a patient free of pain and every other neurosurgical symptom. It all seems to him like a miracle and so he sought more to perform this miracle as well some days. More and more, he is fascinated by how the knowledge of medicine and surgery is so wide, how the various drugs, vaccines, diseases, mechanisms, etc. were discovered and transferred from generation to generation. He knew this could only be because of research. So his goal is to be a Physician-scientist, one who heals patients and also contributes to medicine and surgery via quality research.