Oluyinka O. Olutoye, MD, Ph.D., has been appointed Surgeon-In-Chief in one of the largest and most comprehensive pediatric hospitals and research institutes in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Olutoye served as co-director of the Fetal Center and the immediate past president of the medical staff at Texas Children’s Hospital. At Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, TX, he was a tenured Professor of Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Pediatrics, and chair of the Faculty Senate.
He also leads an established research program focused on the role of the inflammatory response in scarless fetal wound healing, in-utero correction of severe congenital malformations in infants.
The newly appointed surgeon-in-chief was noted for carrying out an operation on a foetus named Lynlee Hope at 23 weeks after she was diagnosed with a rare tumour called Sacrococcygeal teratoma which develops before birth and grows from a baby’s coccyx, the tailbone.
Olutoye and his team removed the little one from her mother’s womb, operated on her and then returned her to the womb where the injuries from her operation healed and she continued to grow until she was born again at 36 weeks.
Olutoye is a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife in Nigeria, where he earned a Bachelors of Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery (MBBS). He went further to complete his residency in general surgery at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals,Virginia Commonwealth University, and his fellowships in pediatric and fetal surgery at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA. and also earned his Ph.D. in Anatomy from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the West African College of Surgeons.
However, Olutoye will work to advance Nationwide Children’s mission, promoting excellence in patient care, and dedication to outstanding clinical outcomes, through his leadership of the 11 surgical departments of the hospital.