Adedamola Ogunniyi, MD
Associate Director - Residency Training Program, Assistant Clinical Professor - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
About
Dr. Ogunniyi is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she has serves as an Associate Program Director and is primarily in charge of the didactic curriculum for the residency program. She also serves as the primary mentor for the second-year class. She completed her residency training at Harbor-UCLA, followed by a fellowship in Global Health at the same institution, working on projects in rural South Sudan and in Amman, Jordan. Her academic interests are in medical education, simulation, global health, and social emergency medicine, continually finding ways to integrate these into residency training curricula. At the medical school level, she serves as one of the co-chairs for an unembalmed cadaver lab course at UCLA and is an instructor for various teaching courses. She is also a mentor to fourth year students looking to pursue a career in Emergency Medicine. In addition, she is an active member of various departmental, hospital, and medical school committees, including the departmental Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee and the International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership (IDHEAL) section at UCLA. Dr. Ogunniyi is also faculty at the Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Science where she serves as a clinical instructor to first- and second-year students. She has also been an invited speaker to both national and international conferences and an author of several book chapters and peer reviewed publications.
Research Interests: Global health, medical education, simulation, quality improvement