Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (born 1957 Nigeria) 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. She also serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospital's Cancer Risk Clinic.
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Life
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 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.
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Awards
- 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program
Four Freedoms Award, 2015
Family
She married Christopher Sola Olopade, also a physician at the University of Chicago, in 1983; they have two daughters, and one son.
References
External links
- "The SciCom Interview: Olufunmilayo Olopade"
- "Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade", Tavis Smiley, July 10, 2009
- " Is the Answer in Your Genes?", Port of Harlem, Feb - Apr 2008
- "Breast Cancer In Black Women May Be Connected To Neighborhood Conditions, Study Suggests", 'ScienceDaily, Mar. 20, 2008
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