[citation needed] In 1961, he returned to the United States and was offered a residency position, training under Dr. Kahn (from 1956 to 1960) at the University of Michigan.

He underwent another pediatric neurosurgery residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia under Dr. Eugene Spitz, creator of the Spitz-Holter valve for treating hydrocephalus.

[citation needed] Although Latunde was subsequently offered multiple appointments, including two distinguished academic neurosurgery faculty positions in the United States, he chose to return to Nigeria.

In 1965, he was appointed as a professor of neurosurgery; from 1968 to 1971, serving as the head of the Department of Surgery and the Dean of the University of Ibadan College of Medicine.

He died on August 20, 1974, at Hammersmith Hospital in London and was laid to rest at St Peter's Church, Burnham, England.