Livingstone College S.T.E.M. White Coat Ceremony 2022
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Posted By: HBCU CONNECT on February 09, 2022 Check out this video from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina! S.T.E.M. White Coat Ceremony 2022 Keynote Speaker Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD "Dr. Olabisi is a 2009 graduate from the Einstein MSTP program. He completed his undergraduate education at The City College of New York, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in Biology. His research focused on the role of serotonin5HT2A and 5HT2C receptors in the actions of cocaine in the nucleus accumbens. Based on the quality of his work, Dr. Olabisi was awarded the Jonas E. Salk Award, one of CUNYs most prestigious undergraduate research awards, in addition to several other awards. He also received the Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for outstanding academic and athletic achievement. Dr. Olabisi performed his Ph.D. thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Chi-Wing Chow in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, focusing on elucidating a novel pathway for the regulation of immune responses. Dr. Olabisi’s thesis research was published in five papers, including two first author papers. He received a five-year award of a prestigious NIH MARC Predoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Olabisi was chosen as one of the two student representatives on Einstein’s MSTP Admissions Committee. Several students were admitted to the MSTP who, in part, owe their positions to Dr. Olabisi’s comments. Following graduation from Einstein, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed Nephrology fellowship training in the MGH-Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Olabisi did a postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Martin Pollak studying the mechanism by which variants of ApoL1 increase the risk of developing chronic renal failure. He was awarded a prestigious Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2016. In 2019, he was the recipient of the competitive NIH Director's New Innovator Award. He was recruited to the Duke University School of Medicine in 2019, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and a member of the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute. In 2020, Dr. Olabisi was chosen to receive the Whitehead Scholars Award. Dr. Olabisi is a role model for his ability to successfully achieve the goals of the MSTP training program. He is poised to make major contributions to our understanding of the molecular basis of kidney disease that particularly affects the African American community. STEM Faculty & Staff Dawn B. McNair, Ph.D. Associate Vice-President of Research Dean, Division of Mathematics and Science Professor or Mathematics Mrs. Kimberly Lord, Administrative Assistant Biology Department Emmanuel D. Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Chair Selma Burrell, Ed.D., Professor of Biology Sashi Sabaratnam, Ph.D., Professor of Biology Jo-Sette Wilkes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry Wilma Gerald, Ed.D., Assistant Professor of Biology Gordon Miller, M.Eng., Assistant Professor of Physics Randy Willis, D.C., Assistant Professor of Biology Mathematics Department Dawn B. McNair, Ph.D., Professor & Interim Chair Karam Batra, M.S., Instructor of Mathematics/Math Coordinator Nicole Allen-Dean, Ph.D., Instructor of Mathematics Gregory Janczak, M.S., Ed.S., Instructor of Mathematics Computer Information Systems Department Obafemi Balogun, Ph.D., Professor Damien Greatheart, M.S., Instructor of CIS John Thomas III, M.S., Instructor of CIS If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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