Olufolarin Oke, M.D.

Olufolarin Oke, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Hospital Medicine.

Originally from Nigeria, Dr. Oke earned his medical degree at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai in New York. He then completed internal medicine residency training at Stanford University Hospital in California.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Oke joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2020.

Dr. Oke’s interests include providing mentorship to medical students and residents; high-quality care delivery to socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals and ethnic minorities; quality improvement research in high-value care and resource utilization in the inpatient setting.

Personal Note

Dr. Oke’s interests outside of medicine include soccer, ping-pong, tennis, and golf.

Medical School

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2017)

Residency

Indiana University School of Medicine (2020), Internal Medicine

• Clinical Outcomes / Followup Care in Patients of Low Socio-economic Status and Ethnic Minorities
• Quality Improvement / High Value Care / Elimination of Waste

Featured Publications

Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced bleb-niche formation in epithelial cells is independent of actinomyosin contraction and enhanced by loss of cystic fibrosis transmembrane-conductance regulator osmoregulatory function.

Jolly AL, Takawira D, Oke OO, Whiteside SA, Chang SW, Wen ER, Quach K, Evans DJ, Fleiszig SM, mBio 2015 Feb 6 2 e02533

• Clinical Decision Making Award
  Stanford University (2018)

• Society of Bedside Medicine (2019)
• Society of Hospital Medicine (2020)
• Texas Medical Association (2020)