Monthly Noma Webinars
Monthly seminars will be held on the last Tuesday of each month from 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa Standard Time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
Dr Seidu Bello (BDS, FMCDS, FWACS, FAOCMF, FGCOI)
Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon &
President Nigerian Noma Society
Tuesday the 26th of August 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
Dr Seidu Bello is a maxillofacial surgeon, being a fellow of both West African College of Surgeons and National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He is also a fellow of AOCMF and Global College of Oral Implantology.
As the founder and CEO of Cleft & Facial Deformity Foundation established in 2012, his interest in noma witnessed a surge with the array of noma patients seen during outreach programmes following announcement for free cleft & craniofacial surgery. The experience culminated in the 2019 publication by CFDF on 'Incidence of Noma in North Central Nigeria'
Dr SA Bello is a member of Technical Working Group (TWG) on Noma since 2019, being a body set up by the Federal Ministry of Health to coordinate activities of noma in Nigeria. Collectively TWG pursued and succeeded in United Nation listing of noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease in 2023, for better global attention and focus.
Dr SA Bello is the president of Nigerian Noma Society (NNS). The society was founded last year to galvanise the activities of Noma in the country and reinvigorate the enormous resource endowment for the advancement of Noma care. The society is actively looking for potential collaborators especially in the area of care and research.
Other interests of Dr Bello includes, training in Head and Neck pathologies including dental implantology.
He is a multiple award winning man and a community man with a title of "Aare Musulumi of Ago Are"
Dr Bello is married with kids.
Dr. Carme Carrion
Tuesday the 30th of September 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
WHO SkinNTD App: field assessment from Kenya
Carme Carrion holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2002), a master’s in biotechnology (1995), a Master in Conflictology (2008) and a Master in Planetary Health (2024). She is currently Health Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and part-time Associate Professor in the University of Girona (UdG). Previously she was Senior Researcher at the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (CAHTA) (2012–2016) where she was leading the development of several Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) and Clinical Decision Support systems. She has been the director of the master’s degree in eHealth at UOC's School of Health Sciences, a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre in eHealth. Currently, she is also the scientific coordinator of the eHealth Center at UOC, an academic centre whose main goal is to capacitate and empower citizens and professionals through the use of technology so that they can lead the paradigm shift in health. She is the Principal Investigator of eHealth Lab Research Group where she is leading several research proposals linked to the assessment of digital health interventions mainly in low and middle income countries.
Dr. Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah (BChD, FAOCMF, FMCDS, FWACS)
Tuesday the 26th of October 2025
at 16h00 to 17h00 South Africa time (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
Dr. Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah, a leading Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon from Nigeria, earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He holds fellowships from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (FMCDS) and the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS), specializing in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His advanced training includes an AOCMF fellowship at the University of Munich, Germany, under Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Ehrenfeld.
Dr. Braimah is an Associate Professor and Honorary Senior Consultant at Usmanu Danfodiyo University and its Teaching Hospital in Sokoto, where he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Dental Sciences and a visiting consultant to Noma Children's Hospital, Sokoto.
He has mentored numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students, presented over 80 conference papers globally, and published more than 180 articles in high-impact journals. His notable contributions include the 2018 modification of a classification system for TMJ bony ankylosis and the 2023 Braimah-Taiwo et al classification for mandibulo-maxillary synostosis as a sequelae of noma. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, in collaboration with the University of Iowa, focusing on the multiomics approach to unraveling Noma disease.
