Ajijola, Olujimi, MD, Ph.D

Dr. Olujimi Ajijola is a leader in physician-scientist education and directs both the PSTP and MSTP at UCLA. He earned his MD from Duke University, and his PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology from UCLA. He completed residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by fellowships in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at UCLA, where he has continued on as faculty, where he now serves as Associate Director of the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs. 

His many honors include being an alumnus of the National Academies’ New Voices Program, a recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), the Jeremiah Stamler Young Investigator Award, and the 2023 Sir Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture Award from the University of Oxford. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2023. He is currently a sitting member of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Black Men and Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He is a nationally recognized advocate for medical and physician-scientist training, recently receiving the Chan Zuckerberg Science Diversity Leadership Award for these efforts.

He is also one of the founding members of CVEF, and as such has been involved in many medical trips to Lagos and Ogun state.