Student Spotlight: Conversation with Titilayo Mabogunje, Class of 2026

Name (pronouns): Titilayo Mabogunje

Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria

Year at Geisel: M3

Career interest: Pediatric gastroenterology

The best thing about Geisel is: the PEOPLE!

Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: Putnam’s vineyard

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: summer hikes

Favorite book/poem: *I’m too undecisive to answer this question and the next; is it okay to skip?”

Favorite song/piece of music:

Favorite quote: “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” – African proverb

Most treasured travel: Family cycling trip to Ikogosi springs in Ekiti, Nigeria

Guilty pleasure: I am a chocaholic!! (I love chocolate)

Unknown fact about you: I used to run a poetry summer camp for teenagers

Anything else: (feel free not to include) Overheard medical pun alert: What did medullary thyroid carcinoma say to pheochromocytoma? We’re MEN 2B!

 

Short Bio:

Titilayo Mabogunje is a M.D. candidate at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She lived in England, Nigeria, and South Africa, before moving to the United States where she completed degrees in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and Theatre Studies at Yale University. She is interested in global health work and most recently, her research interests have taken her to Tanzania where she worked on a study looking at the differences in hearing test performance between people living with and without HIV/AIDS. In her free time, if she’s not working on her next baking challenge, telling punny dad jokes, or making plans to explore a new place, you’ll probably find her traversing the intersection of medicine and the performing arts.