Adewale Adisa is a Professor of Surgery at the Obafemi Awolowo University and Consultant General Surgeon in the Department of Surgery, at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons, the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, and the American College of Surgeons. His special interests are in Minimal Access Surgery and Surgical Education. He has pioneered laparoscopic services in general surgery in Ile-Ife where he has led a team to perform more than a thousand cases and, in the process, raised a new generation of laparoscopic surgeons across the country.