Florence McClain Daramola, MD

After completing her high school requirements at the Lott Carey Baptist Mission School in Brewerville, Liberia in 1954, Dr. McClain-Daramola sailed to the United States with an academic scholarship from the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Board for Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. In 1955, as a student at Virginia Union, she was awarded the G. Webster Davis Prize for Excellence in Biology. By 1957, she earned her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology and was accepted and enrolled in the University of Toronto where she earned her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1962.

Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. McClain- Daramola briefly served as a resident doctor in the Department of Medicine, Central Hospital, Toronto, Canada before returning to Nigeria with her husband, Taiwo Daramola, MD. While in Nigeria in 1964, she accepted the position as Medical Director of Health with the Federal Ministry of Health in Lagos and later became a lecturer in the Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos. In 1977 she returned to Liberia to serve as professor and chairman, Department of Physiology, A.M. Dogliotti College of medicine, University of Liberia. She returned to Nigeria for another teaching stint at Obafemi Awolowo University

WHERE IS DR. FLORENCE MCCLAIN-DARAMOLA NOW?

Dr. McClain-Daramola is retired and currently resides in San Diego, California. She has published numerous journal articles, books and monographs and newspaper articles over her career. She has been married 54 years with six children and 11 grandchildren.