Meet Olufunmilayo Olopade, Nigerias gift to the world

Dr Olufunmilayo Olopade

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade is an hematology oncologist, Associate Dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human genetics at the University of Chicago.

Born in 1957 shealso serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospitals Cancer Risk Clinic.

She graduated from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with a MD, in 1980. She has performed extensive clinical work surrounding the role of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in the incidence of breast cancer in women of African descent.

She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the American College of Physicians, and the Nigerian Medical Association and works closely with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

She married Christopher Sola Olopade, also a physician at the University of Chicago, in 1983; they have two daughters, and one son.

In 2011, President Barack Obama, appointed herto the US Cancer advisory board.

Dr. Olopade is also passionate about exploring the genetic factors behind disparities in breast cancer that affect women of African descent.

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Meet Olufunmilayo Olopade, Nigerias gift to the world