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 researcher with about 40 publications in peer review journals and is a public speaker locally and internationally.
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.
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