Dr. Adekanye, Abiola Grace is a senior lecturer at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. She attended C&S Girls’ Grammar school, Ipetumodu in Ife North local government, Osun state, and obtained the West African School Certificate. She gained admission into the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, to study medicine in 1987. And, on completion of the study, was awarded MBChB. She did a one-year medical internship at the Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital complex in 1996. She later proceeded for National youth service corps at 20 Amphibious Battalion, David Ejoor Barrack Efurun Warri, Delta State, and was successfully discharged in 1987. She joined the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital for residency training in Otorhinolaryngology in 1998 and completed the program in 2007 with an award of a fellow of West African College of Surgeons (FWACS). She obtained FICS in 2014. She joined the services of the University of Calabar as lecturer 1 in 2010. By-election, she represented the Faculty of medicine in the senate in 2012. She became Acting Head of Department of Otorhinolaryngology from 2016-2018. She is a researcher, a teacher, and a mentor. She attended and presented papers in local and international conferences (West African College of Surgeons in Ghana 2012, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Foundation 2017 and 2018). She gained TETFUND sponsorship to attend Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) in Austral in 2015. The area of research interest is Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head and neck oncology, and audiology. She is a member of the following professional bodies; Nigeria Medical Women Association, Nigeria Medical Association, West African College of Surgeons, Otolaryngological Society of Nigeria, Association of Surgeons of Nigeria, Nigerian Surgical Research Society, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head, and Neck Foundation.