Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade

Dr. Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade, a practicing medical oncologist, is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago. Dr. Olopade’s innovative research in women's cancers showed that women of African ancestry can be genetically susceptible to a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer. She is an elected member of numerous honor societies including the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She served as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board under the Obama Administration and currently serves on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and two Chicago-based healthcare companies, Cancer IQ and Tempus. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2005.

Olopade was elected to the Board in 2016. She is a member of the Budget and Compensation Committee and the Institutional Policy Committee.