Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade

Background

Olopade, Olufunmilayo Falusi was born on April 29, 1957 in Nigeria.

Education

Doctor of Medicine with distinction, University Ibadan, Nigeria, 1980.

Career

Medical officer Nigerian Navy Hospital. Intern in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology University College Hospital, Ibadan, 1980—1981. Intern in internal medicine Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1983—1984, resident in internal medicine, 1984—1986, chief resident in medicine, 1986.

Clinical instructor University Illinois Abraham Lincoln School Medicine, 1986—1987. Postdoctoral fellow joint section hematology/oncology University Chicago, 1987—1991, assistant professor hematology/oncology, Pritzker School Medicine, 1991—2002, member Cancer Research Center, since 1991, member Cancer Biology committee, since 1994, member Genetics committee, since 1996, associate professor medicine, professor medicine and human genetics, since 2002, director Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, Cancer Risk Clinic, since 1992, director Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program, since 1998. Attending physician Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1987.

Member steering committee, cooperative family registry for breast cancer studies, National Cancer Institute, also member advisory committee Cancer Genetics Network and board scientific counselors. Member advisory board Cancerandcareers.org. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade has been listed as a noteworthy geneticist, educator, oncologist, hematologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member medical advisory board Young Survival Coalition. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute Medicine, American Association Cancer Research (membership credentialing committee 1994-1995, program committee carcinogenesis subcommittee 1993. Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright lectureship, 2006), American Society Clinical Oncology (member program committee subcommittee tumor biology and genetics 1997, Young Investigator award, 1991), American Association Preventive Oncology, Women in Cancer Research, American Society Hematology, American College Physicians, American Society Breast Disease, American Society Hematology, Association American Professors, Nigerian Medical Association, American Cancer Society (advisory committee cancer control investigations, epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy 1994-1997).

Connections

Married Christopher Sola Olopade. 3 children.

Spouse:

Christopher Sola Olopade