Dr. Adekile is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University.
He is the Chief of Pediatric Hematology at Mubarak Hospital where he looks after patients with sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and other benign hematology disorders. He is the director of the Kuwait National Sickle Cell Disease Registry, which he established in 2011. He is active in the hematology professional circles in the Arabian Gulf.
He was in Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA, from 1980-1981 for his post-doctoral Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology, during which time he worked at the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center under Dr. Roland Scott.
He has served as a consultant to WHO/AFRO on the management of sickle cell disease in Africa. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of HEMOGLOBIN, the International Journal of Hemoglobin Research.