A Conversation with Ighovwerha Ofotokun, MD, MSc
Distinguished Scholar Series
March 6, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Location
Mile Square Health Center
Address
1220 S. Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60608
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Download iCal FileA Conversation with Ighovwerha Ofotokun, MD, MSC
Associate Dean, Research Development and Grady Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
We invite you to join us for the UI Health Distinguished Scholar General Session with Ighovwerha Ofotokun MD, MSc on Thursday, March 6, 2025 from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm CT.
This will be an in-person event held in the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Design Studio at the Mile Square Health Center located at 1220 S. Wood Street, Chicago, IL. You are also invited to a light reception that will follow the General Session from 1:30 to 3:00 pm.
You may register at this link. Registration before March 3, 2025 at 4:00 pm CT is encouraged to reserve a seat.
Dr. Ofotokun is the Grady Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Professor of Behavioral Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. As a clinician-scientist, his career has been devoted to combating the long-term aftereffects of HIV infection particularly among underrepresented populations, while focused on the threat that age-related comorbidities pose to healthy aging in persons with HIV. He leads an innovative global research collaboration to understand the pathobiology of these phenomena and has demonstrated that age-related comorbidities may be driven by disruption in the organ-immune interphase.
Drawing on his experience studying HIV, Dr. Ofotokun leads the Atlanta hub of the NIH initiative, Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) aimed at understanding the long-term post-acute-sequelae of COVID-19 (also known as Long COVID). He serves as the national Chair of the RECOVER Adult Cohort Coordinating Committee that oversees the governance of the Adult Cohort, one of the largest of such cohorts in the world.
Dr. Ofotokun is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and was honored by the Society with the prestigious John F. Enders named lecture at the 2023 IDWEEK. He was elected to the Emory University Woodruff Leadership Academy in 2022 and the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Date posted
Feb 27, 2025
Date updated
Feb 27, 2025