Olufunmilayo Olopade

Who is Olufunmilayo Olopade?

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade 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.

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.

She married Christopher Sola Olopade, also a physician at the University of Chicago, in 1983; they have two daughters, and one son.