Rotimi Mesubi: Time Well Spent.

Abstract

Olurotimi (Rotimi) Mesubi is currently a Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he also completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. Originally from Nigeria, where he earned both a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Ilorin, Rotimi continued gaining an impressive amount of experience in the United States. He earned his Master of Public Health at Harvard University and residency and internships at MetroHealth Medical Center (Case Western Reserve University). It is his research as a Cardiovascular Disease Fellow at the University of Iowa—initiated under his mentor, Dr. Mark Anderson, before they moved to Johns Hopkins University—that earned Rotimi the American Heart Association BCVS (Basic Cardiovascular Sciences) Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award. Rotimi Mesubi As the first of 4 children, I was fortunate to grow up in a nurturing environment. My dad, a college chemistry professor, and mom, a high school chemistry teacher, encouraged my siblings and me to be curious about the world and pursue our dreams. The seeds of my interest in science were sown in elementary school, when I would spend after school hours in my dad’s chemistry lab and interact with his graduate students. Later, I was attracted to medical school, which I attended in Nigeria. One of the reasons I moved to the United States was to pursue postgraduate training; I always dreamed of being at the cutting edge of scientific discovery at the best institutions in the world. I felt then, and still do today, that the US is a unique place that offers such opportunities to someone like me from a foreign country. I began my internship and residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center (Case Western Reserve University) with a plan to become an infectious disease—HIV—specialist. …