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Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, MD, MSPH, MBA, FAASS

Associate Vice Provost

Professor

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SadeKosoko-Lasaki@creighton.edu
School of Medicine
Surgery
Ophthalmology
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building - Suite, G-13, Room G-23

Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, MD, MSPH, MBA, FAASS

Associate Vice Provost

Professor

Multiple national award winner, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki, is an internationally renowned researcher in minority health with a focus on increasing the health care workforce. She has led Creighton University's participation in the training and education of a diverse group of faculty and students in the pre-collegiate and collegiate levels in Nebraska which has resulted in the award of several multi-million dollar award research initiatives. In addition, her efforts have also helped in the designation of the School of Medicine as a Center of Excellence in Minority education in 2005.
Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki leads the office of Health Sciences' Multicultural and Community Affairs, with programs like the Pre medical, Pre Dental and Pre Pharmacy and Health Professions Post Baccalaureate Programs, the Health Professions Pipeline Program, Cultural Proficiency Seminars and Health Disparities Initiatives with a focus on Community Based Participatory Research. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has built collaborative relationships locally, nationally and worldwide while serving as a community/academic leader in the Omaha area. She also oversees the recruitment of disadvantaged students to the health sciences, and mentors these students to retain them. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has lectured nationally and internationally on cultural proficiency and health disparity issues, focusing on the promotion of "pipeline programs" that prepare and support disadvantaged students from grade 4 through health professional schools so they can become successful health care providers.
As an ophthalmologist with a public health degree, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki is passionate about training and educating individuals in developing countries on blindness prevention, specifically Vitamin A deficiency, the leading cause of preventable blindness in children and a major public health problem throughout the world and glaucoma. She has served as a consultant to UNICEF, USAID and Helen Keller International in Burkina Faso, Niger, Mauritania, Chad and the Philippines. Since 1986, Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has researched the prevalence of glaucoma in Blacks in St. Lucia, West Indies. With a focus on detecting and treating glaucoma--the most common cause of blindness in African-Americans and Hispanics--she has initiated health fairs and screenings through Washington D.C. metropolitan area, in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, the US Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic. She created a program for blindness prevention entitled, "Preventing Glaucoma Blindness in Nebraska: A Creighton University Initiative," targeting individuals at risk for glaucoma blindness in surrounding areas.
Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki has co-authored Maintaining the Target Intraocular Pressure: African American Glaucoma Specialist and Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities.
 

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Interests

  • Glaucoma

Research Focus


MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
1.        Prevent Blindness, Galucoma Research
2.        Community Based Participatory Research
3.        Chronic Disease  Epidemiology
4.        Cultural Awareness and Strategies for Implementation
5.        Mentoring Activities Grades K-20
6.        Diversity in Education
7.        Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education
8.        Pipeline Programs into Health Science Schools
9.        Post-Baccalaureate and Bridge Programs
10.      Diversifying the Work Force: Strategies and Implementation
11. Racial Inequalities
 

Department

Surgery

Position

Professor

Books

  • Goodman Mark, Addressing Health Disparities in the LGBTQIA+ Community 2021
  • Leadership in Interprofessional Health Education and Practice
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade (Sade), Interprofessional education and multicultural and community affairs [Book Chapter] 2008
  • Kosoko-Lasaki Sade, Maintaining the target intraocular pressure 2005

Articles

  • Gong Gordon, Erratum 2004

Publications

  • International Journal of Health Promotion and Education
    Ekúndayò Olúgbémiga, Neighborhood characteristics and effects on physical activity in an urban minority community–application of Health Belief Model to findings from Creighton University Center for Promoting Health and Health Equity (CPHHE-REACH) initiative
    58:4, p. 199 - 222 2020
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade, Urban Minority Community Safety and its Impact on Physical Activity
    111:3, p. 334 - 344 2019
  • Journal of clinical oncology
    Zhang Yang, Racial and ethnic disparities in clinical presentation and prognosis of conjunctival cancer
    37:15_suppl, p. e13086 - e13086 2019
  • Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
    Ikpeme Anthonia, The value of mobile ultrasound services in rural communities in South-South Nigeria
    5:7, p. 1011 - 1015 2017
  • Rendell Sara, Improved quality of life in unselected insulin pump-treated children with type 1 diabetes in Eastern Nebraska 2013
  • Sight and Life Magazine: 2012
    Kosoko-Lasaki Sade, Report from the Dominican Republic
    2012:1 2012
  • Family & Community Health
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade (Sade), Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH): Translating Processes of Change and Attributing Improved Health Outcomes to Social Determinants of Health Programs [review]
    34:S1 2011
  • Royeen Charlotte Brasic, Leadership in interprofessional health education and practice 2009
  • American Journal of Clinical Medicine
    Havens Shane J., Penetrating eye injury: A case study
    6:1, p. 42 - 49 2009
  • American Journal of Clinical Medicine
    Hazin R., A review of glaucoma for the primary health care provider
    5:2, p. 40 - 45 2008
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Gong Gordon, Inherited, familial and sporadic primary open-angle glaucoma
    99:5, p. 559 - 563 2007
  • Sonnino Roberta E., Mentoring Program for Minority Faculty in a Private, Jesuit Medical School 2007
  • Archives of Ibadan medicine
    Rowe J A, Review of ocular trauma
    7:1 2007
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade, Race, ethnicity and prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma
    98:10, p. 1626 - 1629 2006
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade, Mentoring for women and underrepresented minority faculty and students
    98:9, p. 1449 - 1459 2006
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Cooney Ramie, Proximal versus distal influences on underrepresented minority students pursuing health professional careers
    98:9, p. 1471 - 1475 2006
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Gong Gordon, Bone mineral density-affecting genes in Africans
    98:7, p. 1102 - 1108 2006
  • Academic Medicine
    Houtz Lynne E., Creighton collaborative health professions partnership initiative: Results of a successful collaboration
    81:6, p. S28 - S31 2006
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Gong Gordon, Bone mineral density of recent african immigrants in the United States
    98:5, p. 746 - 752 2006
  • Sight and Life Newsletter
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade (Sade), Eye care mission to the Dominican Republic, March 2006 2006
  • Journal of Higher Education Outreach & Engagement
    Houtz Lynne E., Creighton collaborative health professions partnership: Assessing impact beyond the numbers
    11:4, p. 147 - 162 2006
  • Teaching and Learning in Medicine
    Sakowski Henry A., Dimensions of clinical medicine
    17:4, p. 370 - 375 2005
  • Sight and Life Newsletter
    Rafferty Karen A., Follow-up report: An observation of vitamin A nutrition in La Guamita, Dominican Republic
    3, p. 21 - 23 2005
  • Journal of Allied Health
    Houtz Lynne E., Teacher education professionals as partners in health science outreach
    33:3, p. 174 - 177 2004
  • Human Molecular Genetics
    Gong Gordon, Genetic dissection of myocilin glaucoma
    13:REV. ISS. 1, p. R91 - R102 2004
  • International Ophthalmology Clinics
    Kosoko-Lasaki Omofolasade, African American Health Disparities
    43:4, p. 123 - 131 2003
  • American Journal of Ophthalmology
    Wilson M. Roy, Progression of visual field loss in untreated glaucoma patients and glaucoma suspects in St. Lucia, West Indies
    134:3, p. 399 - 405 2002
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
    Obisesan Thomas O., Moderate wine consumption is associated with decreased odds of developing age-related macular degeneration in NHANES-1
    46:1, p. 1 - 7 1998
  • Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
    Etienne A. N., A three year review of argon iraieculuplasty in AM African-American population
    38:4, p. S169 1997
  • Ophthalmology
    Kosoko O., Long-term outcome of initial ciliary ablation with contact diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation for severe glaucoma
    103:8, p. 1294 - 1302 1996
  • Clinical Pediatrics
    Sekhsaria Sudhir, An Unusual Case of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection with Glaucoma and Communicating Hydrocephalus
    31:8, p. 505 - 507 1992
  • Ophthalmology
    Mason Roger P., National Survey of the Prevalence and Risk Factors of Glaucoma in St. Lucia, West Indies
    96:9, p. 1363 - 1368 1989
  • Journal of the National Medical Association
    Robinson J. D., Pasteurella multocida corneal ulcer following a baseball injury
    81:5, p. 609 - 614 1989
  • Archives of Ophthalmology
    Kosoko Omofolasade, Duration of Automated Suprathreshold vs Quantitative Threshold Field Examination
    104:3, p. 398 - 401 1986
  • Ophthalmology
    Kosoko Omofolasade, Screening with Automated Perimetry Using a Threshold-related Three-level Algorithm
    93:7, p. 882 - 886 1986

Presentations

  • Healthy People 2030: Addressing the healthcare Workforce 2023
  • National Institute of Health, MWR-NMRI Virtual Regional Conference/Workshop 2022
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. Recruiting and Retaining URM Faculty Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) Virtual Meeting Deep Dive Sessions: How Do We as Leaders Change Ophthalmology to Reflect the Faces of the Nation. 2021
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. "Cultural Competency for HCOP Faculty", Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2020
  • "Glaucoma Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment" presentedto PA Students: Clinical Medicine HEENT/Dermatology Course. School of Medicine,Creighton University, Omaha, NE. 2019
  • "Overview of HCOP Pipeline to Success Program at Creighton University"presented at Empowerment Network's African American Leadership Conference/A Culture of Excellence at CHI Health Center Omaha, NE. 2019
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. "HCOP Health Professional Workshop: Negotiating Salary and Reviewing Contracts", Creighton University, Omaha, NE. Present every semester since 2019 2019
  • Victor Umoh, Anthonia Ikpeme, Emmanuel Effa, Marcus Inyama, Boniface Ago, Theresa Ekpenyong, Nocholas Maxwell, Jessica Bedi, Akaninyene Out, Nchiewe Ani, Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, Andres Ekpenyong. "100% Free Patient Care, Telemedicine, Clinical Research and Mobile Clinics at a Research Hospital in Rural Nigeria: a model for improving health equity" presented at Global Health Conference Mid-West. 2019
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. "Cultural Competency for HCOP Students", Creighton University, Omaha, NE, Present every semester since 2018 2018
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. "Cultural and Ethnic Approaches to Health: Case Studies", CIPER Passport Interprofessional Education. Creighton University. 2018 - Present every semester since 2018 2018
  • Volberding T, Hailey A, Weiner L, Troung L, Fenske B, Hoyt B, Mamdani N, Kosoko-Lasaki, O. "Retrospective Analysis of Refractive Error Screening in Guatemala", presented at the Global Health Conference, Omaha, NE. 2018
  • Weiner L, Hailey A, Truong, L, Calma R, Meyer Z, Kosoko-Lasaki S, Poster Presentation ""Effectiveness of Low-Cost Glasses Distribution in Guatemala, Peru and Vietnam", presented at the Annual Global Health Conference (GHCM) Midwest Conference, Omaha, NE. 2017
  • Poster Presentation: Effa, E, Ikpeme, A, Inyama, M, Agu, B, Ekpenyong T, Out, A, Ani, N, Egbe, W, Akpan, E, Prathivadhi, S, Nichols, M, Kosoko-Lasaki, S,Ekpenyong, A: "Mobile Clinics Deployed in Rural Nigeria for Free Patient Care and Clinical Research", presented at the 2016 Global Health Conference, Midwest, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 2016
  • Poster Presentation: Truong, L, Briggs, B, Kiblinger, M, Andersson, J, Maldonado d, Brandeis A, Funke M, Hiatt M, Pham A, Robinson L, Dobleman J, Houghton R, Murray E, Nicola L, Nissen G, Cook S, Heng P, Auennoz L, Mamdani N, Kosoko-Lasaki O: "Effectiveness of Low-Cost Glasses Distribution in Nebraska, Guatemala, Ghana, Cambodia, and the Dominican Republic", presented at the 2015 Global Health Conference Poster Forum, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 2015
  • Kosoko-Lasaki, O, Mentoring for a Diverse Ophthalmology Work Force, National Medical Association Annual Convention (NMA), Honolulu, Hawaii 2014
  • Kosoko-Lasaki, O. Mentoring for Residents and Junior Faculty, Rabb-Venable Excellence in Research Program, National Medical Association Annual Convention (NMA), Honolulu, Hawaii 2014
  • Kosoko-Lasaki, O. URM Faculty Case Studies, National Medical Association Annual Convention (NMA), Honolulu, Hawaii 2014
  • Kosoko-Lasaki, O. "Unconventional Research", Creighton University Summer Research Institute Colloquium, Omaha, Nebraska 2014
  • Kosoko-Lasaki, O, Maintaining the Pipeline: Collaboration to Promote Diversity and Productivity, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2014 ARVO Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida 2014
  • Gong G, Kosoko-Lasaki O, Haynatzki G, Lynch H, Lynch J, Wilson MR, "Familial aggregation in genetic studies of primary open-angle glaucoma." ARVO 2005 Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale 2005
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O, Gong G, Olivier MGM, Haynatzki G, "Ethnic Diversity in the prevalence of primary open angle glaucoma in the African continent." 5th International Glaucoma Symposium (IGS), Cape Town, South Africa, 2005
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O. Ocular Manifestations of Vitamin A deficiency and its relationship to childhood mortality. Presented to primary care health care workers and family practitioners in Santiago, Dominican Republic. 2005
  • Kosoko-Lasaki O, "Addressing Health Disparities in Eye Care Delivery." Presented at the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas, Anaheim, CA 2004 2004
  • "An insight into the HCOP Mentoring Process: Experience at Creighton University." HCOP, COE and MFFP: Changing the Nation Today for a New Generation, Bureau of Health Professions Annual Project Director meeting, Washington, DC 2002
  • Rate of Visual Field Progression in a Glaucoma Followup Study in St. Lucia, West Indies. Presented at the 3rd International Glaucoma Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic 2001

Federal

  • Center for Disease Control (CDC) National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2014: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH).

Awards

  • The Kingfisher Award
    Award given by the President of Creighton University in partnership with Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions. Given during the virtual campus Presidential Town Hall.
    President of Creighton University
  • Community Healer Award
    The Community Healing Network of New Haven Connecticut and Black Men United In the spirit of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
    Malcolm X Memorial Foundation
  • Drum Major Award in the Area of Accountability
    Drum Major Award in the area of Accountability Action Advocacy Accountability (IMA), The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Metropolitan Omaha Remembering and Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr