Undergrad: University of Florida
Grad school: Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition
Residency: Mount Sinai
Fellowship: Informatics, Mount Sinai
Academic Interests: Aerospace Medicine, Informatics, Global Health, Health Disparities
Personal Interests: Travel, Sports, Nutrition/Fitness, Hip Hop, EDM, Binge watching TV
Donald “DJ” Apakama, MD, MS, is a former Sinai EM chief resident and EMRA Informatics Committee Chair whose academic interest center on research, diversity & inclusion, and clinical informatics. Additionally, he holds a M.S.in Nutrition from Columbia and is currently working on a second Masters degree in Bioinformatics.
After graduating from residency, Dr. Apakama continued at Mount Sinai as an NIH T-32 research fellow through the clinical scientist training program (CSTP), and is currently pursuing a master’s in biomedical informatics at Oregon Health and Science University. Nationally, he is an active member of ACEP’s HIT committee and emergency medicine informatics section, as well as AAEM’s diversity, equity, & inclusion committee. At the hospital level, he serves as a founding faculty mentor to the residency diversity & inclusion committee, and as a member of numerous other system-wide and departmental committees.