Adebayo Adeyinka
Adebayo Adeyinka, has always been interested in promoting access and delivery of health care in developing countries, and joined PULSE since its inception as the Director of Medical Education. His experiences having lived on three continents of the world has had a dramatic impact on his worldview and what he believes can be done to make it better.
Adebayo grew up in Lagos, a sprawling metropolis and the formal capital city of Nigeria, completed his elementary and secondary education in Lagos before leaving the shores of Nigeria on scholarship to pursue a medical degree in the former Soviet Union. Ade is fluent in Russian having lived for the first year in Kishinev, Moldova where he studied the Russian language before moving to Minsk, Belarus where he completed his medical training. After Medical School, he successfully completed post-graduate training in General and Pediatric Surgery.
In the late nineties Adebayo emigrated to the U.S from the former Soviet Union for further training and completed his Pediatric residency training at Woodhull Hospital, in New York. After residency, he completed a 3 year fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Cohen Children’s Hospital, (formerly Schneider Children’s Hospital) Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is currently an attending physician at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care.
As a PALS Instructor and PFCCS Instructor, Adebayo has been on several teaching and clinical missions with PULSE to Kenya and Haiti, and has developed the educational curriculum for PULSE to further advanced training of medical staff overseas, to meet our goal of establishing sustainable pediatric intensive care units in developing countries through the sharing of knowledge.