Segun Famure is the Manager for clinical research, new knowledge and innovation at the Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network in Toronto, Ontario.  He is also the co-Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Student Research Training Program (MOTSRTP) at the same location.  Segun provides direct supervision and manages research teams consisting of research coordinators, biostatisticians and university students involved in transplant research and programmatic quality-related projects.  Some of Segun’s accomplishments while in this role include the collaborative development of two custom-made health information systems in kidney transplantation and organ donation assessments.  These platforms have been used to facilitate the generation of local data for the establishment of defined performance metric benchmarks.  In addition, to date, over 50 scholastic publications have been generated from these custom data platforms. 

He has a diploma certificate in health services management and is a certified health executive (CHE) from the Canadian College of Healthcare Leaders.  Segun has participated in several industry associations and boards including the Canadian College of Healthcare Leaders (2008-present) where he volunteers as a reviewer for their official publication journal – Healthcare Management Forum.  He is also a regular writing contributor to the Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists journal where he recently obtained an award for ‘best article’ in 2022. 

 Segun’s doctoral research will investigate the effective strategies to standardize, recruit, train, engage and retain ‘patient advisors’ or ‘patient-experts’ in hospital advisory councils/committees at Canadian academic healthcare institutions.  He will focus on developing and testing sustainable flexible models to generate effective and sustainable patient advisory councils that would have a meaningful impact on the hospitals they serve, thus delivering quality care to intended target communities. 

 Segun holds an undergraduate degree in life sciences from McMaster University (2000) coupled with graduate training in both public health and education from Lakehead University (2005).