Dr. Oloruntoba Elegbe

Biography :

Training :
Dr Toba had his undergraduate medical education at the prestigious College of Medicine of the University of Lagos in Lagos Nigeria where he also had his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine before moving to the United Kingdom to further his postgraduate training. He is dually accredited with the UK General Medical Council and DHA in both Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.
Experience :
Dr. Toba has had over 40 years of medical practice since qualifying in 1983 which has seen him practice in Nigeria, United Kingdom, USA and Middle East. He has experience at consultant level at various UK hospitals including the Homerton University Hospital, London, Worthing Hospital, Croydon University Hospital, London, and at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow where he also served as the Clinical Service Lead. He was also a consultant in Internal and Geriatric Medicine at the Mediclinic City Hospital Dubai, from 2013 to 2023.
Membership, Fellowship and Certifications :
He bagged the MRCP(UK) in 1992. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He holds membership of the Society for Acute Medicine (UK) and the British Geriatric Society. He has an MBA and various certifications including in Healthcare Management, Business of Healthcare, Business Strategy, Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare. Dr Toba also holds Diploma in Internal Medicine, and also in Endocrinology both from the prestigious Imperial College/Hammersmith hospital, London. He is an enthusiastic educator; he is accredited as a physicians’ educator by the Royal College of Physicians of London and holds a postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education from the University of Dundee (Scotland). He has served on various Royal College of Physicians education committees including acute internal medicine specialty certificate examination standard setting group (SSG) and question writing group (QWG).
Patient Safety and Quality :
While at the Mediclinic City Hospital, he served as a committee member of the Patient Safety and Quality subcommittee and was the Lead physician for the Joint Committee International (JCI)’s Care of patient Chapter in the hospital, for several years.
Clinical ethos:
Dr Toba believes in enhancing patients’ experience of care and that such care should be:
I. Safe: by avoiding harms to patients.
II. Effective: by providing care based on scientific knowledge.
III. Patient-centred: by ensuring that patients’ values guide clinical decisions.
IV. Timely: by reducing waits.
V. Equitable: by providing care that does not vary irrespective of the personal characteristics of patients.
VI. Efficient: by avoiding waste.
Areas of expertise: Outpatient and inpatients treatments of:
Hypertension.
Heart attack
Stroke
Asthma/COPD
Various infections including pneumonia, malarial, dengue fever, urinary tract infection.
Febrile rash
Joint diseases including low back pain.
Diabetes and its emergencies.
Kidney diseases.
Allergies
Diseases of old age (geriatric medicine): including acute care and offering of early comprehensive geriatric intervention so older adults can maintain their independence, to prevent deterioration of their chronic medical and physical conditions and to avert medical crises which could precipitate recurrent inpatient admissions.