Thomas Obisesan
Dr. Obisesan is a Professor of Medicine and Board-Certified Clinician, the Associate Vice President for Regulatory Research Compliance, Research Integrity Officer, and Designated Institutional Official at Howard University. Dr. Obisesan earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. After residency in Family Medicine; he completed a Fellowship Training in Geriatrics, and concurrently, a master’s degree in Public Health from the George Washington University. Through the National Institute of Health (NIH) support for career development award, Dr. Obisesan received post-doctoral training on lipids metabolism, cardiovascular aspects of exercise physiology and genetics (Kinesiogenomics) at the University of Maryland. He is currently an NIH funded Investigator. For ~2 ½ decades, he examined the epidemiologic, physiologic, genetic and biologic mediators of cardiovascular disease (CVD), conducted clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and informed the overlap of cardiovascular disease with AD risk. He now probes the physiologic, metabolic and molecular pathways mediating the effects of fitness adaptation on neurodegeneration, and molecular genetics to probe the downstream effects of CVD risks on hypoxia, gene-environment interactions and epigenetics. Dr. Obisesan is currently a member of several NIH study sections, previously served as editor of peer reviewed journals, and as the Director of the Clinical Research Unit for the Georgetown-Howard University, Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA). In recognition of his national repute, Dr. Obisesan twice received research leadership awards from the Alzheimer’s Association, and served on the Board of Directors of the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, and St. Mary’s Court. Dr. Obisesan, is a member of the Steering Committee for the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI), Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Consortium (ACTC), the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiatives and the ASPREE study. Collectively, Dr. Obisesan has excelled as a leader, teacher, clinician, community advocacy, and recognized nationally and internationally for his research.