Dr Fasina-Ayoola is the medical director of R-Jolad Hospital System, Lagos, Nigeria. A 250-bed private hospital system in Lagos, Nigeria, with three sites across the city. It is a multi-specialist hospital providing a range of services with the aim of providing quality care at an affordable price.

She also heads the emergency department of the hospital launched in March 2022.  She iscollaborating with GEMINI investigators to study sepsis and develop a clinically relevant local protocol taking into account the infectious milieu and malaria, TB and HIV co-infection rates. She is working with Catherine Staton, Ashley Phillips, Maria Mushi, and Joao Vissoci as well as her Lagos research team as the principal investigator.

She is an emergency and critical care physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. She completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she completed a two-year emergency point-of-care ultrasound fellowship (POCUS) and a Master’s in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She is involved in emergency medicine development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is also a board member and foundational fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPGMCN) inaugurated in June 2019 and was part of the selected cohort of medical professionals that drafted the national emergency medicine curriculum for future training programmes in Nigeria.

She managed the first COVID isolation center in Nigeria during the first wave of the pandemic. (https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/09/07/coronavirus-pandemic-nurse-hospital-nigeria-spc.cnn/video/playlists/africa/). Not much was known at the time, and her team took a great risk. She is one of only four trained emergency care specialists in Nigeria and run one of the four emergency departments led by emergency care specialists serving a country of over 200 million people! 

She is a proud mother to a super smart 20-month-old boy and married to a phenomenal artist, Omogbolahan Ayoola (www.gbolahanayoola.com). Her free time is spent reading, trying new foods, and spending time with her family.