Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH

Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH; Associate Professor

Phone: 212-263-4183
Fax: 212-263-4201
E-mail: Olugbenga.Ogedegbe@nyumc.org

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Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, MS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine. Dr. Ogedegbe earned his M.D. from Donetsk State Medical Institute, Ukraine, completed his internship and residency in primary care at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein School of Medicine, after which he finished a Health Services Research Fellowship at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He received an M.P.H. with concentration in public health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Dr. Ogedegbe is a board-certified internist, clinical hypertension specialist and health services researcher. The programmatic focus of his research is the translation into primary care practices, and dissemination of evidence-based behavioral interventions targeted at cardiovascular risk reduction in minority and underserved populations. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of practice-based clinical trials of behavioral interventions targeted at blood pressure control in African Americans. He is the Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded R01 trial, a Project Leader on an NCMHHD-funded P60 Health Disparities Center for Health of Urban Minorities, and a Co-Investigator on several NIH-funded trials designed to improve medication adherence and blood pressure control in minority patients.

Dr. Ogedegbe has served on several NIH study sections including the Behavior Medicine Intervention and Outcomes group. He is a Fellow of American Heart Association and a member of the recently constituted Eighth Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation, Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension (JNC-8). He has completed several studies that examined the barriers faced by this population regarding expectations of blood pressure management, medication adherence, and most recently successfully tested the effectiveness of motivational interviewing counseling in improving medication adherence and blood pressure control in African Americans.

Education/Training:

Medical Education	Donetsk State Medical Institute, USSR
Graduate Education	Columbia University, New York; Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York
Clinical Fellowships	Health Services Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; NIH Research Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Medical Specialty	General Internal Medicine; Clinical Hypertension

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