Isaac O. Opole, M.D., MBChB, Ph.D., MACP
Immediate Past President American College of Physicians
Isaac O. Opole, M.D., MBChB., Ph.D., MACP, is Immediate Past President of the American College of Physicians, representing internal medicine physicians, related subspecialists, and medical students.
He has practiced Hospital Medicine at the University of Kansas Health System for the last 19 years, and currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Ruth Bohan Teaching Professor of Medicine at the Kansas University Medical Center. Dr. Opole has been a Fellow of ACP since 2008. Fellowship is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine. He was elected into Mastership at ACP in 2024. Election to Mastership recognizes outstanding and extraordinary career accomplishments.
In addition to being a Fellow of the College, he has held multiple national and regional leadership positions within the ACP, including serving as the President of ACP Services and Chair of the Board of ACP Services PAC, and has been a member of the ACP Board of Regents for the last four years. He was previously Governor of ACP’s Kansas Chapter from 2016-2020, and served the ACP in various capacities and committees, including the Governance Committee, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee, Restoring the Story Task Force, Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee, National Awards and Mastership Task Force, and the Global Engagement Committee.
Dr. Opole has been recognized with many awards including the Chapter Laureate Award, the Chapter Excellence Award in both 2017 and 2018 and was awarded the John Tooker Evergreen Award for innovative multi-chapter strategic planning in 2017.
Dr. Opole has been a life-long clinician-educator, focusing on building a strong clinical foundation amongst his trainees through curricular and institutional enhancements to improve patient and educational outcomes. Outside the clinical realm, Dr. Opole is also passionate about Global Health and health disparities and is a champion for advocacy in healthcare.
Dr. Opole studied at the Nairobi School and is a graduate of the School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He completed his graduate doctoral degree at the University of California, Irvine and medical residency at the Kansas University Medical Center.
