Uwom Eze is a Forensic Pathologist and Clinical Forensic Physician with additional expertise in Legal, Criminology and Security Psychology, and Organizational Leadership (from the Center for Creative Leadership, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia).
His professional interests and competencies encompass Forensic Death Investigations, Management of the Dead, including Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), Forensic Injury Evaluation and Interpretation, Forensic Management of Sexual Violence and Child Abuse, Evaluation of Medicolegal Systems and Risk Assessment, Expert Witnessing, and Advisory on Professional Ethics in medicolegal dynamics. He develops relevant course content to address practical needs in each context. From 2015 to 2019, he was a Regional Forensic Coordinator overseeing operations in many countries on international humanitarian forensic missions to the Near and Middle East (NEMA) and South Asia regions with a global organisation based in Geneva.
Meanwhile, Dr Eze has worked as a consultant for several years and is currently Chief Consultant Forensic Pathologist and Head of the Forensic Medicine Unit, Department of Pathology, at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, the Premier Teaching Hospital in the country. His professional experience and engagements span across countries in Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, Australia, the UK, the US, and South America. He functions variously across universities and other institutions as a lecturer, facilitator, trainer, and supervisor for undergraduate medical students, postgraduate students and professionals in Forensic Science, Pathology, and related courses. In 2016, he served on the United Nations Forensics Working Group in Geneva on The Revised United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary, and Summary Executions, also known as The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Deaths. He is currently a member of the Medico-Legal Death Investigation-International Community of Practice (MLDI-ICoP), “…a safe collaborative environment working towards connecting and increasing knowledge of medicolegal death investigation systems globally”, in partnership with CDC Foundation and Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA.
Dr Eze is a Justice of the Peace (JP) and holds leadership positions in both local and international professional associations. He is the current Chairman of the College of Nigerian Pathologists (CNP), Oyo State Chapter, the Director of a Forensic Medicine and Pathology Consultancy that delivers expert and independent medicolegal services following standard forensic medicine protocols, and the President of the African Society of Forensic Medicine (ASFM), the pan-African Society for forensic medicine and science practitioners. Among his professional goals in teaching, research and services include making forensic tools and capabilities accessible to more people and communities, especially in addressing the needs of the vulnerable by serving individual and public health and safety, and in support of the justice mechanisms in different jurisdictions.