The DOF Foundation

The DOF Foundation The DOF Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization that is focused on families, homeless outreach, and the

The heart of our mission is to foster a fruitful foundation for family, community, and education. Whether that be through financial resources, educational opportunities, or prayer, we are here to partner with you. To learn more, please visit https://thedofoundation.com/, and refer to the sections below. Family Care: Our goal is to advocate and support the provision of needed social and household s

ervices for foster, adoptive, and underprivileged children, and families. An important mission is providing financial assistance to families through our DOF Scholarship. We support a volunteer Wraparound that collaborates with families to develop specific strategies for meeting the needs of the family. Our goal is to create networks of support for transitional age youths

Educational Support: Our goal is to cultivate a pipeline to increase the number of disadvantaged, underserved and under-represented minority students in colleges, medical schools and in health care-related fields. Our pathway program is dedicated to cultivating academic success for the medical practitioners and of tomorrow. Homeless Community Care: Our goal is to feed and support the homeless community. We build relations and collaborate with community service agencies to facilitate the transformation of the lives of our homeless neighbors in the community.

Please welcome Dr. Breauna Spencer as our newest Program Director at the DOF Foundation.We are excited to have her on bo...
04/29/2025

Please welcome Dr. Breauna Spencer as our newest Program Director at the DOF Foundation.

We are excited to have her on board to help us lead in our mission of improving academic pathways for underrepresented students whose goals are to matriculate in medical school.

To read more about Dr. Spencer, visit our website in our bio under Team & Cohorts.

Our premed program conducted another Enrichment Workshop to prepare and motivate current premedical students who are in ...
04/29/2025

Our premed program conducted another Enrichment Workshop to prepare and motivate current premedical students who are in the process of applying and taking the MCAT.

This time, our medical student from the school of medicine, Peter Vo, presented on Sodium Hypochlorite. Our monthly workshops aim to bring a high yield topic presentation by our MCAT tutors.

We would also like to thank our medical students from School of Medicine for sharing their journey and for meeting in break out rooms to go over SMART goals with the premedical students.

Join us for our next workshop in May.

Another successful workshop for the high school students at King Drew High School took place yesterday. We are grateful ...
04/11/2025

Another successful workshop for the high school students at King Drew High School took place yesterday. We are grateful to the medical students in the Emergency Medicine Interest Group from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science for presenting to our high school students, serving as panelists, and for answering the Q&A portion.

As part of our monthly workshops in bringing interesting topics in medicine to our high school students, The DOF Foundation goals depends on committed medical students to making an impact in young lives. We thank Bria Mayes (coordinator and Premed) for her amazing work; the medical students, Isaiah, Adebayo, Jennifer, Miranda, and Lewis for their contributions to the community.

We would like to thank our volunteers who made this health screening at the Gardena High School possible. Especial thank...
03/08/2025

We would like to thank our volunteers who made this health screening at the Gardena High School possible. Especial thanks to CAAASA for organizing the event and for trusting in us to deliver the free health screening for our community this past Saturday March 1st.

Our volunteers who helped with monitoring blood pressure, glucose, and hemoglobin are:

Brenda Castaneda (CDU, Premed)
Bryan Chavez (Cal State LA, premed)
Michelle Gomez (UCLA, Premed)
Elias Geronimo (CSULA, Premed, Coordinator)
Eduardo Arellano (CSULA, Premed)
Drew Richard (CUSM, MS4, Supervisor)

Special thanks to Doctor Ogunyemi, Founder and CEO The DOF Foundation.

The DOF Foundation at the 41st Annual Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) West Regional Conference on February 8th...
02/25/2025

The DOF Foundation at the 41st Annual Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) West Regional Conference on February 8th of this year.

Our team of medical students from the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science presented on the different components of our program that are created to support, guide, and connect premedical students in their journey to their medical school of their dreams. We thank Martin Vazquez and Martha Romero for the impeccable presentation.

At the same time, our founder and Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education, Dotun Ogunyemi and his team, showcased the CDU's residencies and fellowship programs that provide state-of-the-art clinical settings and promotes both patient health and safety under the guidance of committed professionals at the institution in the South Los Angeles communities.

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Saturday, February 8, 2025It is Black History Month and the city of Long Beach knows it. We appreciate the organizers Ob...
02/11/2025

Saturday, February 8, 2025
It is Black History Month and the city of Long Beach knows it. We appreciate the organizers Oba Toton, founder of , and CDU Psychiatry Resident Yasmeen Elmelige for letting us be a part of the celebration.

We thank the Mayor of the city of Long Beach, Rex Richardson, and Council member Mary Zendejas for visiting our booth and for giving us words of encouragement.

We would also like to thank our volunteers for providing free health screenings to the attendees. Our volunteers are:

Cydnee Charles, CDU Premed
Jessica Ojukwu, UCLA Premed
Arielle Mcglone, CDU Premed
Tatum Cravens, CDU Premed
Nya Hall, CDU Premed
Elias Geronimo, CSULA Premed, Coordinator.

Fatimatou Saka, CDU Medical Student, Coordinator
Adebayo Awokoya, CDU Medical Student
Drew Richard, CSUM Medical Student, Coordinator
Dotun Ogunyemi, MD






The DOF foundation carried out another enrichment workshop for high school students at King Drew High School. A workshop...
01/17/2025

The DOF foundation carried out another enrichment workshop for high school students at King Drew High School. A workshop where medical students from Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science presented a lecture on Anesthesiology.

The components of the workshop consisted on teaching the students about anesthesia, how it works, the procedures, and how to become an anesthesiologist. It was then followed by a Q&A panel with the medical students being the panelists and high school students learned from their journey to medical school. At the end, groups were formed to discuss their SMART goals. A helpful method for guidance and motivation in their journey as high school students interested in medicine.

We thank our coordinator, Bria Mayes, for her incredible work arranging these workshops monthly.

We also thank our medical students in the Anesthesiology Interest Group for their presentation, being panelists, and for their words of encouragement to the high school students.
Medical Students: Dylan Mayarja, Yeab Guracha, Ayser Jama, Mofigin Adegbite, Adebayo Awokoya, and Isaiah Hoffman. All medical students from Charles Drew University School of Medicine.

Scholarship Recipients of our DOF Gala Event.This past month of November, we were pleased to extend14 scholarship awards...
12/17/2024

Scholarship Recipients of our DOF Gala Event.

This past month of November, we were pleased to extend14 scholarship awards in the following categories: Community Engagement Equity & Leadership, Academic Excellence, and Academic & Professional Excellence.

Congratulations to the following scholarship recipients:

Laila Cross: 2nd Year Medical Student
Nyoko Brown: 2nd Year Medical Student
Sabrina Montgomery : 2nd Year Medical Student
Adebayo Awosika: 1st Year Medical Student
Muhammad Mukarram: 1st Year Medical Student
Aundre Price: College Student
James Ehrlich-Bell: High School Student
Osariemen Ogiamien, MD: Internal Medicine Resident
Mercy Azubuko-Udah, MD: Family Medicine Senior
Caleb Lowe, MD: Internal Medicine Senior
Maxwell Okunola, MD: Psychiatry Senior
Nancy Rodriguez, MD: Family Medicine Junior
Oluchi Nwankwo, MD: Internal Medicine Junior
Madison Williams, MD: Psychiatry Junior

We would like to extend a our heartly appreciation to the donors who made everything possible.

On Saturday December 7th, the foundation had the pleasure to provide health screenings to the residents in Inglewood at ...
12/10/2024

On Saturday December 7th, the foundation had the pleasure to provide health screenings to the residents in Inglewood at the Inglewood Senior Center.

We thank our following volunteers for their support,

Medical Students: Fatimatou Saka (Charles Drew University, School of Medicine), and Amir Texeira (California University of Science and Medicine).

Premedical Students: Chloe Reese, KenJonae Wallick, and Elias Geronimo De Leon.

We are proud to have served over 25 attendees with blood pressure, and glucose monitoring.
We plan on continuing our mission in serving the community in the upcoming events.

The DOF Foundation was honored to host the Equity Fireside chat in Hollywood Hills, California. Thank you to the panelis...
12/03/2024

The DOF Foundation was honored to host the Equity Fireside chat in Hollywood Hills, California. Thank you to the panelists: Yolanda Lawson, MD, 124th President of NMA, Ray Bahado-Singh, Systems Chair of OBGYN & Yele Aluko MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI. Chief Medical Officer at EY Center for Equity who all discussed various aspects of health disparities and equity. Thanks to
Roberto Vargas, MD, MPH, Associate Dean of Heaith Policy & Clinical Partnership at Charles R Drew University who moderated the event. The audience included medical students, physician residents, faculty and non-medical people from all industry. It was empowering to listen to the perspective of bankers, pastors, technologists & entertainment industry folks regarding health equity matters. The theme of the night was featuring Nigerian food, attire & music.
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This past Wednesday, November 13th, the DOF foundation hosted an enrichment session with high school students at the Kin...
11/18/2024

This past Wednesday, November 13th, the DOF foundation hosted an enrichment session with high school students at the King Drew High School coordinated by Bria Mayes, High School Program Coordinator.

We thank our panel of medical students from CDU: Clarence Sams, Anaissa Medina, Dominique Clay, Isaiah Huffman, Muhammad Mukarram, Adebayo Awokoya, and Drew Richard from CUSM.

This past Saturday, November 16th, the DOF Foundation provided health screenings at the Chesterfield Square Park. An eve...
11/18/2024

This past Saturday, November 16th, the DOF Foundation provided health screenings at the Chesterfield Square Park. An event organized by the UCLA Club, Melanin & Medicine .

We thank our following volunteers for their support,

Premeds:
Chloe Reese, Jennifer Ajanel, KenJone Wallick, and Elias Geronimo De Leon.

Medical Students:
Fatimatou Saka (CDU) Steve Kamau (CDU), Dominique Clay (CDU), Adebayo Awokoya (CDU), Isiah (CDU), Olumide (CDU), and Drew Richard (CUSM)

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