Oluwole Jegede, MD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Award for Residency Education from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
The award recognizes an addiction psychiatrist with a sustained record of outstanding contributions to psychiatry residency education in addiction psychiatry.
In residency education, Jegede incorporated the Social Determinants of Substance Use course into the addiction didactics series, teaches the Addiction Pharmacology course, and supervises the monthly addiction seminars at Connecticut Mental Health Center. In addition, Oluwole has been primary local supervisor for two past Yale residents’ research projects for the REACH program.
Jegede’s research in addiction medicine includes cultural adaptation of evidence-based addiction treatments particularly contingency management for stimulant use disorders, health disparities in addictions and mental health outcomes in underserved populations. His work explores how structural vulnerabilities affect access to and the quality of psychiatric and substance use services.