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Adebowale Popoola, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Family Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a clinical instructor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Popoola received his MB,Ch.B (an MD equivalent) from Ogun State University in Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria, in 1993. He continued his medical training with a rotational clinical internship from Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, after which he became a medical staff member at the city’s Dr. Abimbola Awoliyi Memorial Hospital. He also worked in Ivory Coast, West Africa as a general practitioner with an emphasis on pediatric care. Dr. Popoola began his training in the United States with a clinical observership in the Medical Emergency Department at Harlem Hospital Center with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, where he was also a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Popoola completed a general psychiatry residency at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Elmhurst Hospital Center in Elmhurst, NY in 2003, followed by a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY.
Dr. Popoola received his Physician and Surgeon License from both Maryland and New York. He is also licensed by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council, and the Educational Commission on Foreign Medical Graduates. He is a member of the Nigerian Medical and Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Research Summary:
Dr. Popoola’s recent studies have involved conducting research into the epidemiology of HIV and tuberculosis as well as an analysis of social and cultural norms facilitating HIV spread in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
He has also collated data on alternative treatment modalities in the management of substance abuse using regular urine toxicology, stress management, collage, behavioral modifications and physiologic biofeedback.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Traumatic Brain injuries and Schizophrenia Predisposition: a journal case review (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, NY 2005)
Communicable Diseases in Isoyin, Ogun State: Social attitudes and clinical management (Community Medicine and Primary Care Dept. 1992).
Refsum’s Disease A biochemical Approach (Clinical Biochemistry Department, 1991). | 