Akinola Fisher

Dr. Fisher is the Chief of Ambulatory Care at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln. He graduated from the University of Ibadan College of Medicine in Ibadan, Nigeria, and went on to several years of training in obstetrics and gynecology in the United Kingdom. Dr. Fisher relocated to the United States in 1997 and completed an internal medicine residency at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey, where he received the Excellence in Ambulatory Medicine Award as well as an award for professionalism in medicine. He then practiced at St. Dominic’s Family Health Center in Jamaica, Queens. Dr. Fisher was subsequently named Medical Director of the Walton Avenue location of the Morris Heights Health Center, and eventually became Deputy Chief Medical Officer.