Ayodipupo Oguntade, MD, MSc, MSc, FWACP, DPhil
Post-Doctoral Fellow | Emory Global Diabetes Research Center
Biography
Ayodipupo (Ayo) Oguntade is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center (EGDRC). Ayo is a cardiologist and physician-scientist with interest in the phenotypic and genetic determinants of cardiovascular diseases in different ethnicities using big data.
He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford as a University scholar where he worked on the UK Biobank of 500,000 individuals, investigating the causal link between adiposity and heart failure. His present research at the EGDRC focuses on the associations of glycemic and metabolic measures in cardiovascular and mortality outcomes in the PRECISION-CARRS South-Asian cohort and contemporary NHLBI cohorts.
Ayo completed his postgraduate medical training at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria and was awarded the Prof Ikeme prize as the best candidate in the cardiology subspecialty exams in the West African region in 2020. He completed his undergraduate medical training at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria and holds masters degrees in clinical epidemiology from the University of Ibadan and Cardiovascular Science from the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London where he was the outstanding student of the year, graduating top of his class in both programmes.
An astute clinician and Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, he is a past recipient of the prestigious UK FCDO Chevening Scholarship, an inaugural Stroke Future Leader of the World Stroke Organisation and past member of the African Regional Group of the International Society of Hypertension. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles.
Publications
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