Akinlolu Ojo, MD, PhD

Dr. Ojo is a Professor of Medicine and Florence E. Bingham Research Professor of Nephrology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He is the Director of Clinical and Translation Research, Division of Nephrology and Comprehensive Kidney Program, University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He received his postgraduate medical education from The University of Alabama, Birmingham and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed residency in internal medicine and was Chief Resident at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Dr. Ojo completed his fellowship in Nephrology and clinical research training at the University of Michigan. His areas of research focus are posttransplant medical complications, organ donation and chronic kidney disease. He is a Principal Investigator on many NIH-funded studies and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. Dr. Ojo is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Kidney Disease, Clinical Nephrology, Reviews on Clinical Transplantation and the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. He serves on multiple clinical trial Data Safety Monitoring Boards and NIH study sections. Dr. Ojo is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation.