Opeolu Adeoye, MD, MS

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine

Biography

Dr. Adeoye is the BJC HealthCare Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency
Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Adeoye is also the Emergency Physician-in-Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Our Level 1 Trauma Center is the largest in Missouri, seeing approximately 80,000 patients per year. WUSM ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world. Dr. Adeoye is an accomplished researcher with over 200 indexed publications in PubMed and he currently serves as Lead PI of an NIH-funded Phase 3 acute stroke clinical trial. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Stroke Journal, and is an American Heart Association Stroke Section Co-Editor. His research accomplishments have garnered a national and international reputation. Outside of his faculty duties, he founded a medical device company using innovative technology from his very first research grant award and serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Sense Diagnostics, Inc. On a personal note, Dr. Adeoye very much enjoys reading, walking, and traveling with his family.