Professor Fola Esan is a Consultant Hematologist. Foundation Secretary of the Nigerian Society for Hematology and Blood Transfusion and he was elected as President of the same Society serving two non-consecutive terms. He is an Instrumental in shaping the faculty of pathology of the Natural postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He held several important positions in the Nigeria Medical Association and Significant research contributions on the Clinical, biochemical and molecular studies on abnormal hemoglobin’s especially sickle cell anemia. He is currently a Director at Institute of Genetic Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.