Dr Nelson M. Oyesiku is Professor and Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery and Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

He was a professor of neurosurgery who serves as a vice chairman of neurological surgery and professor of Endocrinology at Emory School of Medicine.

He is one of the first to use 3D endoscopy in pituitary surgery and is also one of few surgeons in the US and worldwide (and the first in Georgia) to utilize advanced 3-D endoscopic surgery for the resection of pituitary tumors  In 2009, Dr. Oyesiku was one of the first to use the Visionsense 3D  stereoscopic vision system at The Emory Pituitary Center at Emory University Hospital.

He has served on the board of directors of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, as chairman of the Maintenance of Certification Committee, as chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, and on the  Advisory Council for Neurosurgery of the American College of Surgeons.

He is also a member of the Residency Review Committee of Neurosurgery of the ACGME and was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has held leadership positions in the following organizations: the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Federation for International Education in  Neurosurgery, the Georgia Neurosurgical Society, the Society of Neurological Surgeons, and the  World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Most recently, Dr. Oyesiku was decorated as Baa  Segun-Alabe (Surgeon-in-Chief) of Egbaland by the paramount ruler of Egbaland in Abeokuta, the  capital city of Nigeria’s south western Ogun State, to honor his efforts as a good ambassador of the  community.