Dr. Toba Oluboka

Disclosure

Dr. Oluboka graduated from University of Ilorin Medical School in 1986. He started his psychiatry residency training at his Alma mater in 1989.

Following a national award as the best resident in Psychiatry training in Nigeria in 1991, he arrived at the University of Western Ontario in 1992 as a Research fellow with the Department of Psychiatry for two years in Mood Disorders. He subsequently worked as a research assistant with the department until 1995 when he went to Dalhousie University for his Canadian Psychiatry Specialty training and graduated in June 2000.

Dr. Oluboka participated in several clinical studies and published in Peer-Reviewed Reputable Journals in Bipolar Disorders, treatment refractory schizophrenia, measurement-based clinical practice, and Clinical Pharmacology and most recently on early optimized pharmacological treatment in patients with depression and chronic pain. He is still active in Research focusing on schizophrenia.

He has been involved in Clinical Program development and was the Medical Director of Clinical Rehabilitation and Evaluation Unit (CREU) program, an Innovative Regional Specialized Tertiary services for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness. This Program was a recipient of the Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-term Care ACE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychiatry in 2005.

He has participated in many Educational Program development and Continue Medical Education projects and has continued to present in several national and international conferences. He continues to serve as a preceptor for medical students, residents, and International medical graduates. He has won several teaching awards from the University for his teaching involvement with the Undergraduate Medical students.

His Leadership roles in Alberta Health Services included being the Medical Director of Assertive Community Treatment Team, ACT; Central Mental Health Clinic at Sheldon Chumir for several years. He served as the first Site Chief for Addiction and Mental Health Services at the South Health Campus. He currently works as a staff Psychiatrist and the Medical Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Services and Psychiatric Outreach Response Team at South Health Campus.  He holds a Clinical Associate Professor position with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary.