Abiola Fasina, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FMCEM is an emergency critical physician and a health policy consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Fasina completed her training in emergency medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. After several years of practice, she then completed a two-year fellowship in emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and a Masters in Health Policy Research (MSHP) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fasina is actively involved in emergency medicine care development and POCUS education in Nigeria and practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine. She is an active board member and fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, inaugurated in 2019.
Her work has focused on capacity building of emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries around POCUS and medical technology. She has worked in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar and has extensive international experience. She is the medical director and CEO of Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), a healthcare consulting company focused on capacity building and training in emergency medicine and critical care. EHCON has managed several medical facilities particularly, in the era of COVID-19 including the Eti-Osa COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre that was located at Landmark in Victoria Island, Lagos and the VEDIC COVID-19 Hospital in Lekki. EHCON runs the West Africa SonoXpert Academy with Sonosite/Fujifilm focused on POCUS education and training. Dr. Fasina is also the Chief Medical Officer / Consultant Emergency Physician at R-Jolad Hospital, Lagos Nigeria