New faculty spotlight: Olabisi Sheppard, MD

Olabisi Sheppard, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Olabisi Sheppard, MD
• Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery

Research/professional interests:

• Surgical critical care outcomes and innovation.
• Trauma management outcomes and innovation
• Emergency general surgery
• Patient advocacy

How I fell in love with surgical critical care and acute care surgery: Throughout the years of my medical education and surgical training, the concept of critical and innovative thinking has always been rejuvenating to me. I am not satisfied with the status quo, and I am constantly evaluating ways to improve outcomes for my patients.

I always wanted to be involved in critical care innovations that make it possible to care for very sick patients through ongoing commitment to research and development.

I hope to use this skill to bridge the health disparity gap, nationally and internationally, and to help in the development and implementation of self-sustaining health systems that have a solid foundation in surgical critical care and acute care surgery.

Education:

• MD, University of Minnesota
• Residency, general surgery, Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Fellowship, surgical critical care, Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor

Memberships:

• American College of Surgeons
• Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
• Society of Critical Care Medicine

Three things people may not know about me:

• I get lifted when singing praises to God.
• I am multilingual, and I enjoy learning new languages because I enjoy connecting with different people groups.
• I love cooking!