Name (pronouns): Titilayo Mabogunje
Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
Year at Geisel: M3
Career interest: Pediatric gastroenterology
The best thing about Geisel is: the PEOPLE!
Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: Putnam’s vineyard
Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: summer hikes
Favorite book/poem: *I’m too undecisive to answer this question and the next; is it okay to skip?”
Favorite song/piece of music:
Favorite quote: “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” – African proverb
Most treasured travel: Family cycling trip to Ikogosi springs in Ekiti, Nigeria
Guilty pleasure: I am a chocaholic!! (I love chocolate)
Unknown fact about you: I used to run a poetry summer camp for teenagers
Anything else: (feel free not to include) Overheard medical pun alert: What did medullary thyroid carcinoma say to pheochromocytoma? We’re MEN 2B!
Short Bio:
Titilayo Mabogunje is a M.D. candidate at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She lived in England, Nigeria, and South Africa, before moving to the United States where she completed degrees in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and Theatre Studies at Yale University. She is interested in global health work and most recently, her research interests have taken her to Tanzania where she worked on a study looking at the differences in hearing test performance between people living with and without HIV/AIDS. In her free time, if she’s not working on her next baking challenge, telling punny dad jokes, or making plans to explore a new place, you’ll probably find her traversing the intersection of medicine and the performing arts.
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