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Hello! I’m Joy Aifuobhokhan, a physician-turned-health-tech innovator combining clinical insight with AI-powered digital health solutions. As COO of AwaDoc and founder of My Padi Doctor, I lead cross-functional teams to design and scale inclusive, data-driven care platforms across Africa. I’m passionate about building safe, ethical AI that expands access to quality health services for underserved communities.\n\nI draw on global health training, clinical experience, and hands-on product development to drive partnerships, governance, and operational excellence in digital health. I’m committed to transforming care delivery through human-centered AI, rigorous validation, and sustainable models that foster health equity.
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Work Experience
Chief Operations Officer at AwaDoc
January 1, 2025 - PresentLed organizational design and cross-functional governance across product, clinical, and partnerships teams to scale impact and position AwaDoc as a systems-change actor in African health innovation. Spearheaded the development of Noura GPT, a proprietary LLM-based health assistant deployed via WhatsApp and mobile app, delivering 24/7 multilingual triage, symptom checking, and medical recommendations with end-to-end care and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation system. Co-developed Africa’s first health aggregator and marketplace reaching 150,000 users across 25 countries within 3 months. Directed clinical validation, safety evaluation, and iterative improvement of AI-powered tools, overseeing clinician review of outputs, escalation protocols, and quality monitoring. Designed human-in-the-loop evaluation workflows, curated large-scale real-world health datasets, and partnered with clinicians, AI engineers, and product teams for prompt testing and red-teaming. Secured $250k pre-seed fundin
Digital Health Executive & Research Coordinator at Lakeshore Cancer Center
March 1, 2023 - January 31, 2025Co-developed LCC AI Scribe for real-time transcription of doctor-patient consultations, improving clinical documentation efficiency by 70% and trained on African linguistic datasets. Co-developed patient-facing conversational AI tools, reducing patient inquiry response time by 60% and increasing uptake of screening services. Evaluated AI-generated outputs in high-stakes oncology contexts for factual accuracy, patient safety, workflow appropriateness, and escalation thresholds. Championed centre-wide digital health transformation to institutionalise data-driven decision-making in oncology operations. Led policy-influencing research on cancer-related financial distress to inform patient financing models and health system equity. Built an AI-powered cancer registry extraction tool to structure EMR data for research, reporting, and grant funding. Collaborated with clinical, data science, and product teams to develop evaluation datasets and validate AI tools.
Management Consultant at Sydani Group
March 1, 2023 - PresentCo-developed NIEMS, an AI-enabled national emergency response system funded by the Gates Foundation, credited with saving 57,000+ lives by improving ambulance dispatch and maternal referral coordination. Led cross-country teams delivering AI solutions for public health under tight timelines and complex stakeholder environments. Scaled PROMPTS, an AI-driven SMS maternal health platform, to 3M+ mothers across 4 African countries, improving antenatal attendance by 88% and exclusive breastfeeding adherence by 89%. Designed and monitored quality improvement frameworks for large-scale health system programs, using performance dashboards and KPI interpretation. Co-created Sydani Predictic, a predictive analytics advisory tool for health program monitoring, reducing project derailments by 38% and yielding 7.75x ROI within 6 months. Led stakeholder engagement with government ministries, bilateral donors, and implementing partners to anchor AI-driven solutions within national policy and financin
Clinical Operations & Partnership Manager at Fertitude
February 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023Led development and deployment of Kiki AI, providing 24/7 reproductive health guidance to 39,000+ young women. Built a cross-functional partnership model spanning clinical, technology, and business stakeholders across 4 countries. Oversaw clinical quality, telehealth operations, and care navigation workflows, implementing documentation standards, escalation pathways, and QA for AI-enabled patient support systems. Built QA workflows to ensure medically accurate, culturally sensitive responses; analyzed real-world user interaction patterns to improve prompt performance and patient engagement. Secured $100k pre-seed funding and acceptance into the Founders Factory Accelerator.
Founder at My Padi Doctor
July 1, 2020 - PresentFounded an AI-enabled chronic disease management platform addressing Non-Communicable Diseases, serving 5,000+ patients. Built a social-enterprise model linking AI innovation to equitable care delivery and mentored a cross-functional founding team. Secured pre-seed funding and earned Best Health Tech Innovation at the Impact Africa Summit (2022). Designed and deployed an AI model for NCD prediction and management, improving early detection and intervention efficiency by 60%.
Clinical Coordinator at Arrive Alive Diagnostics
February 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022Led quality assurance and clinical operations improvement across diagnostic sites, conducting incident reviews, workflow audits, CAPA, and process redesign to improve reliability, documentation accuracy, and patient throughput. Implemented EMR across branches, reducing clinical data errors by 50%; introduced digital queue management reducing patient waiting time by 50%; supervised multi-site teams and led operational transformation to improve efficiency and accountability.
Medical Officer at General Hospital
February 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021Delivered frontline clinical care across outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings in a high-volume tertiary public hospital. Led clinical quality improvement initiatives to reduce delays, strengthen documentation, and optimize adherence to evidence-based protocols. Coordinated with laboratories, nursing, pharmacy, and administration to streamline care transitions and improve operational efficiency; contributed to patient safety initiatives, audit readiness, and quality assurance activities.
Education
Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management at Stanford University
June 1, 2026 - June 1, 2027Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBBS (M.D. equivalent) at Babcock University
September 1, 2014 - January 1, 2021Global Health E-learning Program: Global Health Research, Project Management in Global Health, Leadership and Management in Global Health, Monitoring and Evaluation at University of Washington
July 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024Nigeria Healthcare Data Analytics & Bioinformatics at DataLab Institute
July 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024Applied Bioinformatics at Independent program
January 1, 2026 - April 30, 2026Healthcare & Life Sciences Summer Camp at Google
July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025Digital Health tech, AI and innovation Fellowship at Bitelabs, USA
September 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management at Stanford University
June 1, 2026 - June 1, 2027MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) at Babcock University
September 1, 2014 - January 1, 2021Global Health E-learning Program: Global Health Research, Project Management in Global Health, Leadership & Management in Global Health, Monitoring & Evaluation in Global Health at University of Washington
July 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024Applied Bioinformatics at DataLab Institute, Nigeria
January 1, 2026 - April 1, 2026Healthcare Data Analytics & Bioinformatics at DataLab Institute, Nigeria
July 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024Google, Healthcare & Life Sciences Summer Camp at Google
July 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025Digital Health tech, AI and innovation Fellowship at Bitelabs, USA
September 1, 2025 - December 1, 2025Qualifications
Outstanding Promise in Clinical AI - University of Oxford Clinical AI Partners and OpenAI
January 1, 2016 - May 28, 2026Top 25 AI in Healthcare Voice in Africa
January 1, 2026 - May 28, 2026Emerging Leaders in AI (ELAI) 2025
January 1, 2025 - May 28, 2026Top 10 Exceptional Professionals of the Year in Healthcare and Wellness
January 1, 2025 - May 28, 2026Best Health Tech Innovation – Impact Africa Summit 2022
January 1, 2022 - May 28, 2026Next-Generation Female Leader Award – AWOL
January 1, 2024 - May 28, 2026Emerging Leader Award – African Women in Leadership Organisation
January 1, 2022 - May 28, 2026Volunteer of the Year – The 100k Club
January 1, 2022 - May 28, 2026Nelson Mandela Female Award – Orion V
January 1, 2020 - May 28, 2026Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Healthcare – MIT Open Courseware
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026AI in Healthcare – Stanford Online (edX)
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026AI for Healthcare: Equitable and Ethical AI in Medicine – HarvardX (edX)
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026Machine Learning for Healthcare – Oxford University (Future Learn)
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026Health Informatics Specialization – Johns Hopkins University, Coursera
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026Tableau and Power BI for Data Visualization
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026Industry Experience
Healthcare, Life Sciences, Professional Services, Government, Software & Internet, Non-Profit Organization
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