Olabode Olanrewaju Akintan

Dr. Akintan is a graduate of the University of Jos Medical school in Nigeria. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical System and went on to complete a Child Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Maryland / Sheppard Pratt Hospital program in the USA.

He moved to Canada and was appointed Assistant Professor at McMaster University and worked at McMaster Childrens Hospital for over a dozen years before moving to University of Toronto to take on a faculty position and as staff psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children.

He serves as the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Division of Child and Youth Mental Health, University of Toronto He is also on staff at Timmins and District Hospital, in Timmins Ontario. He completed a Dual MBA program at Cornell university and Queens university in 2015.

Grants:

Temerty Ukraine-Toronto Education and Collaborative initiative (2025)