词条 | Elizabeth Ofili |
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Early life and educationOfili was born and raised in Nigeria, and attended Ahmadu Bello University for medical school. She moved to the United States in 1982 and earned a master's of public health from Johns Hopkins University in 1983. She completed her postgraduate education in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] Career and researchOfili began her career with research at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, and continued her cardiology research while a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1994, she became an associate professor at Morehouse School of Medicine, and was promoted to full professor in 1999. Her research focuses on heart disease in the African-American population, dyslipidemia, hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, and echocardiography; her work in the African American Heart Failure Trial substantially changed guidelines on heart failure treatment for African-Americans. She has also conducted research with NASA into the effects of microgravity on vasculature. She is acclaimed for her studies of myocardial blood flow.[1][3] Honors and awards
References1. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_240.html|title=Changing the Face of Medicine {{!}} Dr. Elizabeth Odilile Ofili|website=www.nlm.nih.gov|access-date=2016-03-06}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ofili, Elizabeth}}2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.abcardio.org/boardmembers.php|title=About ABC ~ Board of Directors|website=Association of Black Cardiologists|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121172858/http://abcardio.org/boardmembers.php|archive-date=2016-01-21|access-date=2016-03-10}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.msm.edu/about_us/FacultyDirectory/Medicine/ElizabethOfili/|title=Elizabeth Ofili, MD, MPH, FACC|website=www.msm.edu|access-date=2016-03-06}} 11 : American cardiologists|American women physicians|African-American physicians|Women cardiologists|Nigerian emigrants to the United States|Ahmadu Bello University alumni|Johns Hopkins University alumni|Washington University in St. Louis faculty|1956 births|Living people|Place of birth missing (living people) |
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