Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH

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Staff Physician-Community Health Center, Inc.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
134 State Street
Meriden, CT 06450
Phone: (203) 237-2229 ext. 6025
Fax: (203) 686-1677
Nwando@chc1.com

Dr. Olayiwola is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Community Health Center, Inc, the largest health center system in the State of Connecticut. Community Health Center is a leading provider of high quality healthcare services to uninsured, underinsured and publicly insured patients. In her role as Chief Medical Officer, she directly oversees physicians and advanced practice nurse practitioners, coordinates clinical care, quality improvement initiatives and incorporates public health initiatives into daily practice. She is also the Chair of the Quality Improvement, Planned Care and Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committees at Community Health Center and continues to drive the agency's commitment to eliminating racial/ethnic and gender disparities. In addition, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut, teaching medical students through Clerkships and Practicum experiences. Her interests and experiences include health policy, clinical care, quality improvement, public health, health disparities and minority women's health, adolescent and HIV/AIDS prevention in domestic and global initiatives.

Dr. Olayiwola is the Founder and CEO of GIRLTALK (Girls In Real Life Tackling A Livid Killer: Minority Girls Talk Back to HIV/AIDS) Inc, a non-profit organization in New York, NY that provides HIV/AIDS education and prevention to minority adolescent girls in high risk areas. This organization is committed to educating adolescent girls of color about HIV/AIDS and its prevention and to train them to become Peer Leaders and ambassadors for change. Since the inception of GIRLTALK in 2001, this program has trained girls in high-risk areas of the Bronx, NY, Harlem, NY, Washington Heights, NY and Ghana, West Africa, and has been adopted by the Columbia University Department of Family Medicine. She has spoken widely on the issues of HIV/AIDS in minority women and continues to promote minority women's health in clinical, community and research settings. She is also an Advisory Committee member of the "Food Smart & Fit" Obesity prevention initiative for obesity prevention in minority adolescent girls.

Dr. Olayiwola was named as one of America's Top Family Doctors of 2007 and 2008 by the Consumers Research Council of America. In October 2007, she was honored as a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She also received the Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award from the American Medical Association in March 2005. In October 2008, she will receive the Emerging Leaders Award from the Family Medicine Education Consortium and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

Dr. Olayiwola obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees from the Ohio State University, completed her residency training in Family Medicine at Columbia University, where she was Chief Resident, and her Masters in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health through the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy.

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