Abdulkareem Agunbiade, MD

"Kareem" is our EM POCUS Fellow for 2020-21. He is rushing back to California after a nine-year hiatus because he now hates the phrase, "Winter Is Coming!"

He was born in Nigeria and raised in the Midwest, but does not always like to reveal that part of his upbringing was in Indiana. He went to Stanford for college and then spent four years in Chicago for medical school (University of Chicago) after which he decided to stay for another four years for residency (Cook County) and the food. Okay, maybe it was mainly for the food! After his third year of medical school, he spent a year at the NIH primarily studying disparities in mortality for ethnic minorities on dialysis. In addition to convincing everyone that ultrasound will rule the world, his research interests also focus on addressing and reducing disparities within our healthcare system. Through community outreach he hopes to also address various social disparities as well as working to increase underrepresented communities of color in medicine.