Content by Olapeju Simoyan, MD, MPH

Dr. Olapeju Simoyan is an addiction medicine physician and an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine. She also holds adjunct faculty positions at Penn State University College of Medicine and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. She previously served as the Founding Medical/Executive Director of Research at Caron Treatment Centers and the program director for the addiction medicine fellowship at Geisinger Marworth. Prior to her medical training at Penn State College of Medicine, she obtained a dental degree from the University of Ibadan and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.  She also served as a Fulbright scholar in Nigeria (2012-14) and an Erasmus Mundus scholar in France and the UK (2012-13). She was the recipient of the American Association of Medical Colleges’ Nickens Faculty Fellowship in 2012 and the Arnold Gold Foundation’s Humanism in Medicine award in 2022.  Dr. Simoyan blends her passions for writing and photography to make scientific concepts accessible in her wildlife photo books for all ages. She also writes a column on a Patheos, “Where Faith and Critical Thinking Meet.”