Oluwadamilola "Lola" Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, is now the Chief of Breast Surgery at Penn Medicine and Surgical Director of the Rena Rowan Breast Center at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine.
A graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she also completed a Masters in Population Health Sciences, Dr. Fayanju completed a residency in general surgery at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and fellowship training in breast surgical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2019, she was recognized by the National Academy of Medicine as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar.
Dr. Fayanju's background and expertise are in breast cancer surgery; her research interests include health disparities, aggressive breast cancer variants, and improving value in oncology. She is also an Innovation Faculty member at the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Economics (LDI).
Board certified in general surgery, Dr. Fayanju sees patients at the Rena Rowan Breast Center at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.