Short Biography
Dr. Somefun graduated from the University of Lagos, College of Medicine in 1995 and received his training in Psychiatry from New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation in affiliation with
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University at Harlem Hospital center, New York.
He completed his chief residency program in 2004 and completed his fellowship in Public
Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York in 2005. He obtained an Executive MPH from
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 2007.
He is currently the Chief of Psychiatry at Frederick Health hospital and holds hospital privileges
at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital as well.
He has maintained certification in Psychiatry as a Diplomate of the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also board certified with the American Board of Addiction
Medicine.
He is a clinical faculty member of the West Virginia University School of Osteopathic Medicine
since 2014. The medical students from these institutions come to have clinical rotations with
him in hospitals. These teaching assignments are the source of his continued interest in
education, new interventions, and Psychiatric research.
He is an active member of the American Psychiatric Association, Maryland Society of psychiatry,
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and American College of Academic Addiction Medicine.
