The Helen O. Dickens Presidential Associate Professor & Chief, Division of Breast Surgery
University of Pennsylvania
Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, FACS, is the Helen O. Dickens Presidential Associate Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief of the Division of Breast Surgery for Penn Medicine. She is also Surgical Director of the Rena Rowan Breast Center in the Abramson Cancer Center, Director of Health Equity Innovation at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Her research spans four areas: (1) addressing disparities and promoting equity in breast cancer presentation, guideline-concordant care, and outcome; (2) improving prognostication and treatment for biologically aggressive variants of breast cancer including inflammatory, lobular, and metaplastic carcinoma; (3) optimizing oncologic care through the collection and application of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and data on social determinants of health (SDOH); and (4) elucidating the importance of race, ethnicity, and gender in the conduct of research and the promotion of a diverse healthcare and medical research workforce.