Emmanuel Olusegun Fashakin was born
in Lagos, Nigeria, and attended St. Gregory's College, Lagos, Nigeria,
Nigeria's first Catholic high school, graduating as the student with the
highest score in the School Certificate Examination in the school in
that year. He was admitted to College at the prestigious University of
Ibadan the same fall at the young age of 16 years.
Emmanuel
graduated from the Medical School of the College of Medicine of the
University of Ibadan in June 1979 as the best graduate in a class of 188
winning among others: Sir Manuwa Gold Medal, Nigerian Medical
Association Award for best graduate, The Dean's Prize, Distinctions in
the subjects of Pathology and Pharmacology; and Departmental Prizes as
best student in Pathology, Physiology, and Pharmacology. After
internship at the State Hospital, Akure, Nigeria, and a one-year
compulsory service at Toro Health Center, Toro, Bauchi State, Nigeria,
Emmanuel returned to his alma mater at the College of Medicine in Ibadan
and did a one year residency in Pathology between July 1981 and June
1982.
After
a brief stint as a Medical Officer in primary care at St. Nicholas
Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, Emmanuel returned to academic studies,
enrolling as a Surgery Resident at the Obafemi Awolowo University in
Ile-Ife, Nigeria in February 1983. Emmanuel completed the surgical
residency in four short years and passed all the examinations for the
award of Diplomas of both the Nigerian Medical College of Surgeons and
the West African College of Surgeons without dropping any examination - a
record at the time. Emmanuel also passed the primary examination of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England in an overseas examination
conducted at the University Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana.
Emmanuel was appointed Attending Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery at the
Obafemi University Ile-Ife, Nigeria at the young age of 31, the youngest
person ever to attain such position.
Emmanuel
emigrated to the United Kingdom in May 1989 and five weeks later,
without any prior training in the British Isles, sat for and passed the
Final Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (the
pass rate for the examination was 9-11%). Thus, Emmanuel became the very
first person to be awarded the Fellowships of Nigerian Medical College
of Surgeons, West African College of Surgeons, and a Royal College of
Surgeons in the United Kingdom by examinations, passing all the eight
examinations for the award of the Fellowships in record time and without
failing any examination at any level.
Emmanuel
immigrated to the United States in July 1993 after spending four years
working in various hospitals in England. In view of the requirement for
additional training before a Foreign Medical Graduate could be allowed
to practice as a specialist in the US, Emmanuel changed to primary care
and enrolled as a resident in Family Practice at the Jamaica Hospital in
July 1993. Emmanuel broke the record for the school for the annual
examination conducted for residents by the American Board of Family
Medicine in 1995, scoring an all time high 99th percentile. Emmanuel
was appointed Chief Resident in 1995 and completed Family Medicine
residency in July 1996.
Emmanuel
established the Alpha-K Family Medical Practice P.C. on July 1, 1996,
the very next day after completing the Family Practice residency, and
has remained in practice of medicine since then. From that humble
beginning, there are now five branches of Alpha-K Family Medical
Practice in Queens and Brooklyn Counties in New York City, with almost
thirty employees.
Emmanuel
enrolled as an evening part-time student at the School of Law of St.
John's University, Jamaica, New York in August 2003. Emmanuel placed
first in his class in every semester examination since enrollment and in
July 2004, was awarded the Dean's Scholarship, a sum of $10,000 applied
to tuition, as the best student in the evening section. Emmanuel won
the Dean's Scholarship every year thereafter, completing the hat-trick
in August 2006. Emmanuel graduated magna cum laude from Law School
in January 2007, with a GPA of 3.78, coming first and winning the CALI
Awards in eleven courses taken in the Law School: Torts I, Property II,
Torts II, Contracts II, Constitutional Law I, Business Organizations,
Criminal Law, Appellate Advocacy, Family Law, Advanced Criminal Law
Advocacy, and Trusts and Estates. Emmanuel took and passed the Bar
Examinations in States of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, all at
the first shot, and is now a licensed Attorney and Counselor at Law,
admitted to the State Bars of New York, New Jersey and the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Emmanuel has remained in active practice of Medicine and was awarded the prestigious Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians in April 2012.
On April 5, 2013, the USCIS certified Emmanuel Fashakin as a CIVIL SURGEON to conduct Immigration Medical Examinations.
Emmanuel
is a Pentecostal Christian, is a registered soccer referee in Nigeria,
UK and the US, and plays the piano, guitar and violin. He is also an
avid golfer with a handicap index in the low twenties.
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