Dr.  Odunsi is Chairperson-Elect for the Cancer Immunology Working Group.

Latest Honor for Roswell Park Deputy Director: Business First C-Level Executives Award

Dr. Kunle Odunsi recognized among ‘the most successful, innovative, and forward-thinking’ executives

Highlights
  • Media outlet recognizes local executives for outstanding leadership
  • Dr. Odunsi honored as standout physician, researcher and healthcare leader
  • C-Level awardees to be celebrated at virtual ceremony in October

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Deputy Director Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG, will receive a C-Level Executive Award for 2020 from the media outlet Buffalo Business First.

Dr. Odunsi, who also serves as the Robert, Anne & Lew Wallace Endowed Chair in Cancer Immunotherapy, Executive Director of the Center for Immunotherapy, and Chair and M. Steven Piver Professor in the Department of Gynecologic Oncology, was nominated alongside 19 other prominent business executives for their strength and leadership during a challenging year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Day in and day out, Dr. Odunsi is working to improve the lives of people both in Buffalo and around the world,” says Candace S. Johnson, PhD, President & CEO and M&T Presidential Chair in Leadership at Roswell Park. “His focus on patients as he guides our groundbreaking research makes him stand out as a physician, a researcher and a visionary healthcare leader. We are so proud to have him as part of the Roswell Park family.”

On staff at Roswell Park since 2001, Dr. Odunsi obtained his medical degree from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and his PhD from the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford, United Kingdom. He completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine and a clinical fellowship in gynecologic oncology at Roswell Park. He was elected to lifetime membership in the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

Dr. Odunsi will be honored at a virtual ceremony on October 15.

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