Boluwaji Ogunyemi MD

Boluwaji Ogunyemi is chief dermatology resident physician at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has backgrounds in epidemiology, sociology, medical education, communications, and leadership. In addition to being a physician leader, Dr Ogunyemi is an award-winning writer in the areas of diversity and inclusion, medical humanities, and medical education.

He has been published in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun and several other print and electronic media outlets. His original articles about diversity and inclusion and medical humanities have been used in anti-racism workshops and his writing has been translated into French and Portuguese.

Dr Ogunyemi completed medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland where he served as President of the Medical Student Society after undergraduate joint honors in sociology and medical science from Western University.