Proven Young Physician Leadership
for an Innovative ​Post-pandemic Future
Toluwalasé "Lasé" Ajayi, MD FAAP (pronounce), is a pediatrician, pediatric and adult palliative medicine specialist, and clinical researcher.  She is nominated to the Young Physician seat on American Medical Association Board of Trustees by the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

Dr. Ajayi is the Immediate-past Chair of the AMA Young Physicians Section, Chair of the California Medical Association Council on Medical Services, President-elect of the San Diego County Medical Association, and an AAP Delegate to the AMA House of Delegates. ​Lasé has broad experience across organized medicine and has demonstrated exceptional leadership.  She skillfully led the YPS through an advocacy landscape complicated by COVID while strengthening CMA policies to help practicing physicians across California.

Lasé brings thoughtful listening and collaborative action to everything she does.  Her broad experience and expertise, passion for improving our healthcare system for patients and physicians alike, and her ability to solicit input and build consensus will be an invaluable addition to our BOT. 

Key Priorities
Dr. Ajayi sees too many patients living in healthcare deserts while her physician colleagues experience barriers to serving under-resourced communities. Her mentorship of students & residents personalizes how we must alleviate those barriers as one way to improve healthcare access. Through her research and as Chair of CMA-CMS, Lasé has experience bringing cutting-edge technology to her physician colleagues and will help position our AMA to meet physician needs in a post-COVID landscape.

Lasé understands that historically and systematically marginalized people have good reason to be wary of healthcare and that COVID-19 has amplified distrust.  Her research uses mobile health technology to engage pregnant persons of color as a means of eliminating health disparities. She knows how such technologies can be harnessed to empower physicians and patients as well as to improve access to high-value care. As a Palliative Medicine specialist, Dr. Ajayi is an expert in breaking down communication barriers, building trust and making people feel respected.  Lasé is committed to her childhood pledge to transform our health system into one which is accessible and welcoming to all.

The emotional and physical ramifications of this pandemic amplified the stress felt by many physicians who work within a broken system and will be felt for generations.  As a physician wellness committee chair and Palliative specialist, Dr. Ajayi has seen first-hand how the ramifications of this pandemic have negatively impacted her physician colleagues. She will bring this experience to move us beyond talking about burnout and instead focus our work on physician thriving.

Endorsements

American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine
American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists
California Medical Association
AMA Young Physicians Section
AMA SSS
AMA PacWest Conference
AMA Section Council on Pediatrics
AMA Minority Affairs Section
I truly believe that the some of best things you can do to advance the interests of the House of Medicine are to listen, listen to those around you, those with the same or different viewpoints; learn; and then work together to bring about necessary change. ​My hope for the future of medicine is that we can come together as a house of medicine and push for practices, policies, and care that benefit all our patients.

​I’m a first-generation immigrant, mother of three, physician spouse, researcher, and Black woman physician who cares for patients at both ends of the life spectrum.  Our patients deserve our best efforts to reform our healthcare system—shattering barriers to care and uplifting the quality of care we provide while allowing physicians to regain their joy in practicing medicine.  Together our AMA will transform our health system to meet the diverse needs of our patients and physician colleagues.