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Dr. Olurotimi Badero

Dr. Olurotimi Badero was born in Lagos, Nigeria and currently lives in the U.S.

Badero is now the only doctor in the world to have full specialist training and certifications in both cardiology and nephrology.

In other words, he is the first and only person in the world to become a combined heart and kidney doctor.

Recently named among the top interventional cardiologists in the United States, the Nigerian genius currently holds certifications in six different specialties in medicine.

“By training, I specialised in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, invasive and interventional cardiology, nephrology and hypertension, interventional nephrology & endovascular medicine, nuclear cardiology as well as peripheral vascular interventions. Putting all that together, I would like to think of myself as an interventional cardio nephrologist as well as a peripheral vascular interventionalist,”

His journey to the world of medicine began in Nigeria at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun state, where he first studied medicine.

Today, Badero is the Executive Director of Cardiac Renal & Vascular Associates, the Medical Director of St. Joseph Hospice, and he is on the global Advisory Board of the therapeutics experts on Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis, Merck Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.