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Joy Ogunsile (she/her/hers)

Medical Director
Memorial Regional Healthcare
Hollywood, Florida, United States

Foluso Joy Ogunsile grew up in Greenville, SC. Her family is of Nigerian descent. She studied biology and African American studies at Duke University in Durham, NC. After college, she completed a year of intramural research year at the NIH. She received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatric residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. After witnessing significant disparities in the healthcare for adults with SCD, she decided to complete a fellowship in hematology at Johns Hopkins University with the sole purpose of studying sickle cell disease. After fellowship, she worked at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, AL where she worked at a comprehensive sickle cell center for three years. She completed research in nutrition and exercise in SCD and won a competitive investigative fellowship during her time at the University of Alabama. Her passion is to improve the quality of lives and lifespan for warrior with sickle cell disease through optimum care and clinical research.

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