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Olugbenga Akinkugbe

Title: Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine (Intensivist)
Designations: MBBS, MA, MRCPCH
Pronouns: he/him
Phone: 416-813-7654 ext. 415507
Email: olugbenga.akinkugbe@sickkids.ca
Fax: 416-813-5313
Alternate Contact Name: Sara Chowns
Alternate Phone: 416-813-7654 ext. 309696
Alternate Email: sara.chowns@sickkids.ca
Alternate Fax: 416-813-7299
U of T Positions: Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Research Positions

Project Investigator, Child Health Evaluative Sciences

Biography

Dr. Olugbenga Akinkugbe is an Intensive Care Physician in the Department of Critical Care Medicine. He received his medical degree at the University of London (UK), and completed specialty training in paediatrics and paediatric critical care medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Cambridge University Hospitals.

Alongside clinical training he gained a diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford before moving to Toronto to complete a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

Having gained a Masters in Ethics and Law at Keele University, Dr. Akinkugbe advocates for ethical reflection in clinical care and clinical research.

Research

Dr. Akinkugbe's research program uses clinical data, analysed with statistical methods such as trajectory clustering, to understand how organ systems are affected in different critical illnesses such as serious infections (also called sepsis and septic shock). He is a PhD candidate in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto with a Thesis entitled "Characterizing and predicting clinical phenotypes using trajectories and patterns of paediatric critical illness." His research program aims to enhance tools used to describe organ system function, to better understand and treat critical illness in children.

Education and experience

  • 2023–Present: Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
  • 2021–Present: PhD Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
  • 2020–2023: Clinical Fellowship / Clinical Research Fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
  • 2016–2019: Subspecialty GRID Training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Royal College of Paediatrcs & Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children; Cambridge University Hospitals, U.K.
  • 2016–2018: Postgraduate Diploma, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford, U.K.
  • 2011–2016: Specialty Training in Paediatrics, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health, London School of Paediatrics, U.K.
  • 2007–2009: MA, Medical Ethics and Law, Keele University, U.K.
  • 2004–2009: MBBS, Medicine, University of London, U.K.

Achievements

  • 2022: Research Excellence Award, Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  • 2021–present: PhD Scholarship, Clinician-Scientist Training Program, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  • 2019: Trainee Research Award, Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS), U.K.

Publications

  1. Akinkugbe O, Marchetto L, Martin I, Chia SH. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease After Pediatric Critical Illness. Crit Care Explor. 2024 Jul 30;6(8):e1129. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000001129. PMID: 39078531; PMCID: PMC12333778.
  2. Gaetani M, Maratta C, Akinkugbe O, Ginter D, Baleilevuka-Hart M, Helmers A, Guerguerian AM, Mtaweh H. Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections in Pediatric Critical Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Hosp Pediatr. 2024 Jul 1;14(7):573-583. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2024-007733. PMID: 38864108.
  3. Akinkugbe O, Dhanani S, Watad S, Aravind PD, Pereira M, Dryden-Palmer K, Alnaji F, Bell C, Devine L, Fan E, Guerguerian AM, Helmers A, Lavigne M, Lee C, Maratta C, McKinnon NK, Neilipovitz D, Gilfoyle E. The care of critically ill adults with COVID-19 in Ontario pediatric intensive care units. Can J Anaesth. 2023 Oct;70(10):1660-1668. English. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02535-x. Epub 2023 Aug 3. PMID: 37537325.
  4. Akinkugbe O, Saxena R, Ramnarayan P. Comparison of Specialist and Nonspecialist Transport Teams for Emergency Neurosurgery. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023 Mar 1;39(3):173-178. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002844. Epub 2022 Sep 9. PMID: 36083193.
  5. Akinkugbe O, James AL, Ostrow O, Everett T, Wolter NE, McKinnon NK. Vascular Complications in Children Following Button Battery Ingestions: A Systematic Review. Pediatrics. 2022 Sep 1;150(3):e2022057477. doi: 10.1542/peds.2022-057477. PMID: 36032017.

Funding

  • 2021–Present: PhD Scholarship, Clinician-Scientist Training Program, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
  • 2019: Trainee Research Award, Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS), U.K.
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