Dr ola akinboboye biography

Ola Akinboboye is a Nigerian-American nuclear cardiologist.
Ola (Olakunle) Akinboboye is a Nigerian-American nuclear cardiologist.
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Dr. Ola Akinboboye

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Dr. Akinboboye, MD, MPH, FACC FACP FAHA FASNC FSCCT DABMS MBA is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY. He is also the Medical Director of Laurelton Heart Specialist P.C., in Laurelton, Queens. NY.

Dr. Akinboboye was on the faculty of Columbia University from 1995 to 2000 as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. He obtained a Master of Public health Degree from the School of Public health at Columbia University in 1998. He also received a Masters degree in Business Administration from Columbia business School in 2001. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, hypertension, cardiac CT sleep medicine and nuclear cardiology.

He serves as the President of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). In addition to this leadership position, Dr. Akinboboye is Vice Chair of ABC’s Continuing Education Committee and Co-chair of examination drafting committee and member of the Board of the Certifying Board of Nuclear Cardiology.

Dr. Ola Akinboboye has received numerou

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Dr. Ola Akinboboye and his Association of Black Cardiologists wanted a video that would link African-American lifestyles to the heart disease epidemic ravaging the community.

They found it.

“Before You Eat The Church Food Watch This Video,” is the film, and Akinboboye, 52, the Rosedale, Queens-based president of the 2,500-member international ABC, hopes it will help decrease the alarming health issues afflicting the African-American communities many of his members serve.

“The average black man lives 68 years, while the average white woman lives to 85,” Akinboboye said. “African-Americans have heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney failure and dialysis at rates that are 20 to 30 percent higher than whites. That is the frustration for cardiologists, trying to eliminate these disparities.”

While some of those differences may have genetic origins, most are lifestyle issues, many traceable to the way African-Americans historically use and prepare food, he said.

Akinboboye believes another traditional African-American stalwart, the

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Olakunle Akinboboye, MBBS, MPH, MBAProfile page

Ola Akinboboye MD, MPH, MBA, FACP FACC, FAHA, FASNC, FSCCT, DABSM.

Dr. Akinboboye completed his medical education at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in 1984. He obtained a Master of Public Health Degree from the School of Public health at Columbia University in 1998. He also received a Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University Business School in 2001.
He completed his cardiology fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1994 and served on teaching faculty at Columbia University as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1995 to 2000. He also served on the teaching faculty of Stony Brook University from 2000 to 2006 as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. He is currently a Clinical Professor of cardiology at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell.
He was the Director of Nuclear Cardiology at St Francis Heart Center in Roslyn, NY
He was also Director of Cardiac Imaging and Research at New York Hospital, Queens. NY
He is currently the Medical