Toluwalase A. Ajayi

Toluwalasé “Lasé” Ajayi, MD, is a community pediatrician, adult and pediatric palliative medicine physician, and clinical translational researcher. Elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees in June 2022, Dr. Ajayi is also chair of the California Medical Association (CMA) Council on Medical Services and president of the San Diego County Medical Society, where she is the first black woman president in the organization’s 152-year history.

Dr. Ajayi immigrated to the U.S. as a political refugee from Nigeria when she was seven and grew up in Lawrence, Kan. She completed medical school at the University of Kansas and a pediatric residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center prior to training in adult and pediatric palliative medicine at the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice.