Dr Akeem Sule
Speaker / Co-founder, HIP HOP PSYCH · Consultant Psychiatrist, Essex Partnership University NHS Trust · Hon. Visiting Research Associate, University of Cambridge
About
Dr Akeem Sule is the Co-founder of HIP HOP PSYCH and a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry at Essex Partnership University NHS Trust, and an Honorary Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He is also a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge University.
Dr Sule has taught and lectured to psychiatry trainees and resident doctors in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt, Nigeria, Brazil, Ireland, Turkey and India, and is a member of the Association of University Teachers in Psychiatry. He obtained his medical degree from the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, and completed his specialist psychiatry training with the Oxford Rotational Scheme. He has also worked at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and the Hammersmith PET Centre as a clinical research worker in neuroimaging research.
Dr Sule is an International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He also helped develop a teaching module built around the television series The Wire for a medical-student psychiatry course at a Texas medical school, using it to teach the social determinants of mental health.