Morehouse School of Medicine

Director
Elizabeth Ofili, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C.

Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Ofili completed medical school at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and received her Masters in Public Health at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing her Internal Medicine Residency Program at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma she pursued her Cardiology Fellowship at Washington University and St. Louis University Health Science Center.

Dr. Ofili has an active interest in the mechanism of myocardial dysfunction with particular emphasis on the role of ultrasound imaging modalities. She received the Young Investigator Research Award early in her career for her work on the physiological stress agents in a canine model of coronary artery disease. In collaboration with Dr. Morton Kern, Dr. Ofili developed and validated the method of analysis of the intracoronary doppler spectral wave form used to study coronary flow reserve. She is recognized for her expertise in the field of echocardiography in clinical and population based trails.

Dr. Ofili is a past President of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc., an active member of the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks and serves on several national and international committees. Dr. Ofili has published over eighty scientific papers, book chapters and abstracts, and has over 150 scientific presentations. A recipient of the Preventive Cardiology Academy Award, Dr. Ofili established large clinical patient databases at Grady Memorial Hospital in congestive heart failure, chest pain and hyperlipidemia. These databases allow evaluation of treatment effectiveness, but more importantly offer a patient enrollment resource for ongoing clinical trials in coronary artery disease, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and congestive heart failure.