Olapeju Simoyan, MD, MPH, BDS, DFASAM, FAMWA, is an addiction medicine physician and holds an appointment as a full professor in the department of psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine. She also holds an adjunct faculty position at Penn State University College of Medicine. Her past leadership positions include serving as the Founding Medical/Executive Director of Research at Caron Treatment Centers and the program director for the addiction medicine fellowship at Geisinger Marworth. She was also a founding faculty member at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. 

Dr. Simoyan earned her medical degree from Penn State University College of Medicine, receiving the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award at graduation. She completed an internship in psychiatry/family medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Western Psychiatric Institute and her family medicine residency at the Penn State/Good Samaritan Hospital Family and Community Medicine Residency program, graduating with the Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship.

Prior to her medical training, Dr. Simoyan received a dental degree from the University of Ibadan College of Medicine in Nigeria and a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is board-certified in family medicine and addiction medicine and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. 

She was the Founding Editor in Chief of Black Diamonds and Silver Linings, literary journals published by Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and Reading Hospital, respectively.

She is the author of Transformation and Recovery - Lessons from the Butterfly, and co-author of Navigating the Methadone Maze. Her academic memoir, Girls Become Doctors and Much More, features over 60 women physicians from around the world. Dr. Simoyan strongly believes in the need to transform education and health care, with a focus on creativity, problem-solving, and integration of the arts and sciences.