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Tomi Obafemi
Tomi Obafemi
Background
Career interests in coronary disease and complex valvular repair.
Other Interests
Texas Alpha Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. (AOA) (2018)
Alpha Omega Alpha, founded in 1902, is the national medical honor society. Membership in AOA may be attained as a medical student, resident, fellow, faculty member, alumni, clinician, or distinguished leader in medicine. Each school may elect up to 20% of the graduating class of students, up to 25 residents/fellows, up to 10 faculty, and three to five alumni, who, based on merit, demonstrate the characteristics of excellent physicians in alignment with AOA’s mission and value
Stanford Cardiothoracic GME Diversity Committee Member (2022-2024)
Represented the department of CT surgery at monthly meetings discussing initiatives to foster a sense of community amongst under represented minority residents at Stanford Health care and brainstorm creative ideas to recruit the best and brightest to commit to training here in the future
Founder of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Diversity Pipeline program @ Stanford Health Care (2022)
Established a funded program that accepts 3-5 under represented minority students in college or medical school to spend a summer at Stanford and receive free MCAT/STEP courses, join research labs and shadow in the operating room.
Research
Publications:
Heng EE, Wang H, Obafemi O, Marsden A, Woo YJ, Boyd JH. The biomechanics and prevention of vein graft failure in coronary revascularization. Vessel Plus. 2023;7:31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/2574-1209.2023.97
Pong, T., Aparicio-Valenzuela, J., Obafemi, O., Cyr, K., Carlton, C., Taylor, C., & Lee, A. (2023). High-resolution spatiotemporal changes in dominant frequency and structural organization during persistent atrial fibrillation. PloS one, 18(2), e0271846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271846
Obafemi T., Mullis D., Bajaj S., Krishna P., Boyd J. Results following implementation of a cardiac surgery ERAS protocol. PLoS ONE. 2023;18:e0277868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277868.
Obafemi, O. O., Wang, H., Bajaj, S. S., O'Donnell, C. T., Elde, S., & Boyd, J. H. (2022). An automated line-clearing chest tube system after cardiac surgery. JTCVS open, 10, 246–253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon.2022.02.020
Ramachandra, A. B., Wang, H., Wnorowski, A., Schwarz, E. L., Pickering, J., Heiler, J. C., Lucian, H. J., Hironaka, C. E., Tran, N. A., Liu, Y., Khan, M. O., Obafemi, O., Tada, Y., Kahn, A. M., Sayed, N.,
Wu, J. C., Humphrey, J. D., Boyd, J. H., & Marsden, A. L. (2022). Biodegradable external wrapping promotes favorable adaptation in an ovine vein graft model. Acta biomaterialia, 151, 414–425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.08.029
Wang, H., Bajaj, S. S., Manjunatha, K., Yu, M. M., Obafemi, O. O., Williams, K. M., & Boyd, J. H. (2022). Diminishing Basic Science Research Experience Among United States Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainees. The Journal of surgical research, 279, 312–322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2022.06.020
Wang, H., Pong, T., Obafemi, O. O., Lucian, H. J., Aparicio-Valenzuela, J., Tran, N. A., Mullis, D. M., Elde, S., Tada, Y., Baker, S. W., Wang, C. Y., Cyr, K. J., Paulsen, M. J., Zhu, Y., Lee, A. M., & Woo, Y. J.
(2022). Electrophysiologic Conservation of Epicardial Conduction Dynamics After Myocardial Infarction and Natural Heart Regeneration in Newborn Piglets. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 9, 829546. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.829546
Powell, M., Wilder, F., Obafemi, O., Mohan, N., Higgins, R., Tang, X., & Okereke, I. (2022). Trends in Diversity in Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residencies. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 114(3), 1044–1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.01.041
Obafemi, O. O., Mullis, D. M., Rogers, A. B., & Lee, A. M. (2022). Characteristics of Integrated Thoracic Surgery Residency Matriculants: A Survey of Program Directors. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 114(3), 1035–1042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.01.030
Shah, R. L., Perino, A., Obafemi, O., Lee, A., & Badhwar, N. (2019). Intentional pneumothorax avoids collateral damage: Dynamic phrenic nerve mobilization through intrathoracic insufflation of carbon dioxide. HeartRhythm case reports, 5(9), 480–484 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrcr.2019.07.007
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