Tokunbo (Toks) Akande, MD, MPH, FAAP
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Medical Director of Informatics, Bemidji Region, Sanford Health
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Dr. Akande is joining us from Sanford Health in Minnesota, where he has been attending for the past two years. He completed medical school in Nigeria where he served as a Medical Officer, then completed a MPH degree at Johns Hopkins, where he proceeded to conduct systematic reviews at their Evidence-based Practice Center and their Center for Clinical Global Health Education. He completed a pediatric residency at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, and is board certified in Pediatrics. During residency, he created a clinical rule to improve screening of teenagers for intimate partner violence; and in Minnesota, he was an Epic physician champion where he designed clinical decision support. His research interests include optimizing EHRs, patient/medication safety, patient portals, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.