Adedamola Ogunniyi, MD

Dr. Ogunniyi is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, where she serves as the Director of the Process and Quality Improvement Program. She completed her residency training at Harbor-UCLA, after which she completed a fellowship in Global Health at the same institution, working on projects in rural South Sudan and in Amman, Jordan. As an Emergency and Disaster Care (EDC) fellow/consultant for the International Medical Corps (IMC) in South Sudan, she worked on a project focused on educating clinical staff on mass casualty incident management. In this role, she was involved in all aspects of project management including budget management, data collection/monitoring and evaluation (M&E), volunteer recruitment and procurement. She also served as the Clinic Management Consultant for IMC in Jordan as part of the Syrian refugee response. In this role, she was tasked with the development of a primary health care system at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan and was involved with various aspects of administration (staff recruitment and supervision), logistics, finance, and coordination with key players from other aid agencies. Given her interests in healthcare systems and delivery outside the US, she also spent some time working as a House Officer (similar to a rotating intern) at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria (one of the major tertiary care centers in the country) prior to residency.

Her current interests are in medical education, social emergency medicine, simulation, global health and quality improvement. She currently serves as one of the co-chairs for the Emergency Procedures Course (EM 220.02), which is a week-long course run at UCLA during which 4th year medical students are afforded the opportunity to practice/perform routine Emergency procedures on unembalmed cadavers. She also participates as an instructor for the simulation and cadaver lab sessions in the Emergency Medicine Subinternship (EM 320.02) course and in Foundations week for the Acute Care College (AC01) at UCLA. She is interested in utilizing out-of-classroom and experiential teaching techniques to pass information across to students and residents, which is particularly helpful for teaching about rarely seen pathology or infrequently performed procedures. She hopes to continue to improve her education and simulation skills and continually seeks innovative ways to integrate all these varying interests.

Research Interests: Global health, medical education, simulation, quality improvement