Emmanuel Adegbite, MD
General Member
Brief info
Emmanuel has extensive experience volunteering in multiple urban and rural communities. He seeks to lead, support, and inspire health system dynamics that proffer intuitive, innovative, and lasting solutions to various socioeconomic disparities in health in Canada through an evidence-based, integrated approach, and advocacy.
He seeks to contribute to the life-transforming encounters that happen to individuals and families across Manitoba through Inspire. As a family physician and board member, Emmanuel values the evidence and culturally informed, family-centered care that Inspire provides to patients and families of those living with mental health issues and neurological/cognitive differences.
Emmanuel has a keen interest in supporting indigenous health and is trained in Indigenous Cultural Safety. He also has a profound interest in clinical research and was awarded the 2014 leadership award of excellence in research as the “Most Outstanding Young Researcher of the Year” by World Changers International. Together with a team of doctors, he discovered the first probable case of Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis in Africa. He currently volunteers as a clinical research assistant with Manitoba Primary Care Research Network and the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network.
Emmanuel has additional certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support from the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. He is also certified in Psychological Health and Safety for workers by the Canadian Centre of Occupational Health and Safety.