AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT

E.S. Akpata

Enosakhare Samuel Akpata lived and worked as professor for twenty-three years in the Middle East – thirteen in Saudi Arabia and ten years in Kuwait. He started his academic career at the University of Lagos where he was appointed professor of restorative dentistry in 1979. He has authored numerous articles in peer reviewed scientific and professional international journals. He was the founding editor of the African Dental Journal as well as editor of Medical Ethics, a textbook used in some Nigerian universities. The second edition of his popular dental textbook was published by Quintessence in 2013 with a new title, Principles and Practice of Operative Dentistry: A Modern Approach. Professor Akpata obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate dental degrees from Leeds University, England. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland; the National Medical College, Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the New York University Faculty of Dentistry, USA in 1981. His hobbies are playing the piano and golfing. He is married with three sons and grandchildren.