Elizabeth O. Ofili, MD, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine and a practicing cardiologist with Morehouse Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves as Chief Medical Officer for Morehouse Choice Accountable Care Organization, a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Shared Savings Program, which includes Federally Qualified Health Centers across the state of Georgia. Dr. Ofili is a nationally and internationally recognized clinician scientist with a particular focus on cardiovascular disparities and women’s health. In 2002, as president of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), she led the initiative to implement the landmark African American Heart Failure Trial (AHEFT), whose findings changed practice guidelines for the treatment of heart failure in African Americans. Dr. Ofili is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AccuHealth Technologies Inc./Health 360xTM a patient-centered platform for population health management and clinical trial diversity. Dr. Ofili is the immediate past Chair of the Board of the Association of Black Cardiologists. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Alliant Health Group, a nonprofit Quality Improvement Organization.
Dr. Ofili is a principal investigator (PI) in the National Research Mentoring Network and contact PI of the Coordination and Evaluation Center for the NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program for Inclusive Excellence. She serves as PI of the Amgen-sponsored African American Heart Study, multi-PI of the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, and contact PI of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Coordinating Center (RCMI-CC). She serves in advisory roles for Amgen’s Rise program and the Bristol-Meyers-Squib-Pfizer alliance initiative. Dr. Ofili has received many awards for her contributions and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ofili graduated with distinction from Ahmadu Bello University School of Medicine in Nigeria and received an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
