Folafoluwa Olutobi Odetola, MB ChB, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Biography
Fola Odetola is an Associate Professor in the Division of Critical Care Medicine. His research interests focus on the optimization of health care delivery to critically ill and injured children through process evaluation, including health technology assessment within the pediatric critical care unit, and outcomes assessment.
Dr. Odetola earned his medical degree MB CHB from the College of Health-Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Dr. Odetola’s graduate medical training included pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Michigan. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also obtained a Masters of Public Health degree in Health Care and Prevention. He is a graduate of the health services research fellowship in the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Michigan.
Education
MB, ChB, College of Health-Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1992
MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004
Selected Publications
Odetola FO, Clark SJ, Gurney JG, Donohue JE, Gebremariam A, DuBois L, Freed GL. Factors associated with interhospital transfer of children with respiratory failure from level II to level I pediatric intensive care units. J Crit Care. 2015;30(5):1080-1084. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2015.06.008
Odetola FO, Bruski L, Zayas-Caban G, Lavieri M. An Innovative Framework to Improve Efficiency of Interhospital Transfer of Children in Respiratory Failure. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016;13(5):671-677. doi:10.1513/AnnalsATS.201507-401OC
Odetola FO, Anspach RR, Han YY, Clark SJ. Interhospital transfer of children in respiratory failure: a clinician interview qualitative study. J Crit Care. 2017;37:162-172. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.09.022
Odetola FO, Anspach RR, Han YY, Clark SJ. Interhospital Transfer of Children in Septic Shock: A Clinician Interview Qualitative Study. J Intensive Care Med. 2018;33(12):671-679. doi:10.1177/0885066616683662
Odetola FO, Freed G, Shevrin C, Madden B, McCormick J, Dombkowski K. In-Hospital Quality-of-Care Measures for Pediatric Sepsis Syndrome. Pediatrics. 2017;140(2):e20170350. doi:10.1542/peds.2017-0350