Dr. Mariam A. Bashir
Partner — Clinical Standards & Quality of Care
Lagos, Nigeria
Profile
Dr. Mariam A. Bashir is a Consultant Clinical and Radiation Oncologist whose work sits where clinical excellence, multidisciplinary coordination, and patient safety meet — the daily reality of delivering complex, high-stakes cancer care. A Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons and of the Medical College of Radiology (Radiation and Clinical Oncology), she has practised at the front line of one of medicine’s most exacting specialities, where the margin for error is small and the discipline of standards is not optional but lifesaving.
She partners with The Arete Connoisseurs as the firm’s clinical anchor — bringing the voice of the practising specialist into TAC’s standards, quality, and training work. Her career has been defined by translating evidence into reliable, protocol-driven care: building clinical services from the ground up, developing the guidelines and stewardship frameworks that protect patients, and mentoring the next generation of specialists.
Role at TAC
As Partner, Dr. Bashir ensures that the standards, assessor training, and quality-improvement frameworks TAC delivers to regulators and institutions are clinically sound and implementable at the bedside — not just defensible on paper. Accreditation systems succeed or fail on whether frontline clinicians can actually work with them; her contribution is to keep TAC’s work grounded in that test.
Within TAC’s faculty model, she anchors the firm’s clinical standards and quality-of-care perspective, with particular depth in cancer care service design, multidisciplinary team working, clinical guideline development, and antimicrobial stewardship.
Signature Experience
Consultant Clinical & Radiation Oncologist. Currently at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) / MedServe LUTH Cancer Centre, managing head & neck, breast, and pelvic malignancies and sarcomas; previously at General Hospital, Ikorodu, where she helped to establish a new oncology department — from service model through to patient-management protocols.
Clinical leadership as Chief Resident. led a team of 9–10 residents — organising supervision rotas and driving exam-focused training, drills, and mentorship across a radiation and clinical oncology department.
Clinical guideline development & patient safety. member of the LUTH Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and contributor to the LUTH antibiotic guideline, including provisions specific to cancer patients — hands-on clinical-governance and patient-safety standard-setting.
Multidisciplinary cancer care. routine tumour-board participation and the contouring and review of Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy (3D-CRT), Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), and Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) radiotherapy plans — coordinated, protocolised, peer-reviewed practice.
Research & academic leadership. chaired the LUTH Association of Resident Doctors (ARD-LUTH) Research & Medical Committee and authored multiple peer-reviewed oncology publications, with sustained work in research conception, data management, and manuscript writing.
Credentials
- Fellow, West African College of Surgeons — Radiation and Clinical Oncology (FWACS)
- Fellow, Medical College of Radiology — Radiation and Clinical Oncology (FMCR)
- MBBS, College of Medicine, University of Lagos
- Best Graduating Student, Radiation and Clinical Oncology, NPMCN Part II examinations
- Member, LUTH Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
- Member, Scientific Committee, Association of Radiation and Clinical Oncologists of Nigeria (ARCON)
- Based in Lagos, Nigeria
Selected Publications
- Aje E.A, Sowunmi A, Alabi A, … Bashir M.A, et al. Vitamin D receptor polymorphism and its relevance in prostate and colon cancer patients. J Radiat Cancer Res, 2025.
- Onyeodi IA, Fagbenro GT, Bashir MA, Awofeso OM, Joseph AO. The path to becoming a clinical or radiation oncologist in Nigeria. ecancermedicalscience, 2022.
- Adeniji AA, Dawodu OO, Habeebu MY, Oyekan AO, Bashir MA, et al. Distribution of Breast Cancer Subtypes Among Nigerian Women. World J Oncol, 2020.
What Dr. brings to TAC’s clients
Dr. Bashir’s distinctive contribution is the credibility of a practising consultant who has both delivered complex, high-stakes care and built the systems that support it — clinical guidelines, antimicrobial stewardship, outcome data, and specialist training. For TAC’s regulator and institution clients, she is the assurance that quality standards and accreditation frameworks are clinically valid and workable where care is actually given.