Department of Medicine

Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Faculty

Femi Akindipe, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine University of Florida Department of Internal Medicine Gainesville, Florida 32610-3001 Phone (352) 265-8940 Email id: akindoa@medicine.ufl.edu

Educational Background

• 1999 Fellowship Heart Lung/Lung Transplant, Stanford University Medical Center
• 1994 Fellowship Pulmonary/Critical Care , Rush Pres. St. Luke's, Chicago, IL
• 1990 Residency Internal Medicine, Cook county Hospital, Chicago, IL
• 1983 Internship University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Research Interests

• - Clinical Lung Transplantation Outcomes
• - Mechanisms and treatment of Obliterative Bronchiolitis (Chronic Lung Allograft Rejection)

Professional Societies

• American Thoracic Society
• International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)

Publications (2004 onwards)

• Faul JL, Akindipe OA, Berry GJ, Doyle RL, Theodore J. Recurrent Pneumocystis carinii colonization in a heart-lung transplant recipient on long-term trimethoprim- sulfame thoxazole prophylaxis. J Heart Lung Transplant. 1999 Apr; 18(4):384-7.
• Akindipe OA, Faul JL, Vierra MA, triadafilopoulous G, Theodore J. The surgical management of severe gastroparesis in heart/lung transplant recipients. Chest. 2000 Mar;117(3):907-10.
• Faul JL, Akindipe OA, Berry GJ, Theodore J. Influenza pneumonia in a paediatric lung transplant recipient. Transpl Int. 2000;13(1):79-81.
• Barlow CW, Robbins RC, Moon MR, Akindipe, Theodore J, Reitz BA. Heart-lung versus double-lung transplantation for suppurative lung disease. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2000 Mar;119(3):466-76.
• Soccal PM, Doyle RL, Jani A, Chang S, Akindipe O, Poirier C, Pavlakis M. Quantification of cytotoxic T-cell gene transcripts in human lung transplantation. Transplantation. 2000 May 15;69(9):1923-7.

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