Post Author: Olumuyiwa Bamgbade, MD
Olumuyiwa Bamgbade is an accomplished health care leader with a strong focus on value-based health care delivery. A specialist physician with extensive training across Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Korea, Dr. Bamgbade brings a global perspective to clinical practice and health systems innovation.
He serves as an adjunct professor at academic institutions across Africa, Europe, and North America and has published 45 peer-reviewed scientific papers in PubMed-indexed journals. His global research collaborations span more than 20 countries, including Nigeria, Australia, Iran, Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya, Armenia, South Africa, the U.K., China, Ethiopia, and the U.S.
Dr. Bamgbade is the director of Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada—a specialist and research-focused clinic. His work at the clinic centers on pain management, health equity, injury rehabilitation, neuropathy, insomnia, societal safety, substance misuse, medical sociology, public health, medicolegal science, and perioperative care.
Olumuyiwa Bamgbade is an accomplished health care leader with a strong focus on value-based health care delivery. A specialist physician with extensive training across Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Korea, Dr. Bamgbade brings a global perspective to clinical practice and health systems innovation.
He serves as an adjunct professor at academic institutions across Africa, Europe, and North America and has published 45 peer-reviewed scientific papers in PubMed-indexed journals. His global research collaborations span more than 20 countries, including Nigeria, Australia, Iran, Mozambique, Rwanda, Kenya, Armenia, South Africa, the U.K., China, Ethiopia, and the U.S.
Dr. Bamgbade is the director of Salem Pain Clinic in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada—a specialist and research-focused clinic. His work at the clinic centers on pain management, health equity, injury rehabilitation, neuropathy, insomnia, societal safety, substance misuse, medical sociology, public health, medicolegal science, and perioperative care.
In the bustling environment of modern health care, the loudest voices frequently attract the most attention. Yet, a special category of physicians who are less visible but no less significant exists: the efficient, quiet clinicians who are usually underestimated. This physician type blends high productivity with a calm demeanor, allowing skill and results to speak louder than words.
Underestimation can undermine leadership opportunities for quiet physicians because visibility may play a …
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Historically, health care has approached safety with a Safety-I lens, emphasizing the prevention of errors and investigating failures. While this method remains significant, contemporary health care’s complex, dynamic, and interdependent nature necessitates proactive and adaptive safety strategies. The emerging Safety-II and Safety-III frameworks provide novel perspectives on safety by prioritizing resilience, real-time adaptation, and learning from success, rather than from failure.
Safety-II shifts the focus from what goes wrong …
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Health care systems acknowledge that how they respond to mistakes significantly impacts their workforce’s morale, retention, and overall productivity. The consequences of a punitive culture are costly in terms of financial and operational costs, as it discourages reporting, promotes burnout or fatigue, and aggravates staff turnover. Conversely, implementing a just culture promotes psychological safety, continuous learning, and fairness, which enables health care staff to remain engaged and resilient throughout their …
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The transformation of care delivery is driven by value-based health care (VBHC). In addition to its cost-effectiveness and clinical efficiency, the success of VBHC depends upon its ability to exemplify empathy and equity. Usually disregarded in pursuing metrics, data, and integrated payments, these two pillars are indispensable for implementing a system that provides dignity and equity to all patients. Embedding empathy and equity into health care delivery is no longer …
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WeightWatchers (WW) recently completed a broader financial reorganization, realigning leadership with a sharper focus on clinical innovation and women’s health, including menopause support. The reorganization includes appointing a chief medical officer to lead a more integrated, medically informed approach.
WW’s reorganization bankruptcy was driven by mounting debt and pressure from newer weight-loss therapy products, namely GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. It was also impacted by a shifting landscape where traditional …
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The evolving contemporary era of value-based health care (VBHC) demands new risk leadership. VBHC emphasizes quality, outcomes, safety, equity, and stakeholder satisfaction. With these goals come complex, cross-cutting risks, including workforce shortages, clinical complications, health care staff safety, cyberattacks, and supply chain disruptions. To address the modern risk situation, health care systems must allocate resources to resilient, enterprise-wide risk governance and innovations.
The enterprise risk management (ERM) framework is the centerpiece …
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In the noble pursuit of healing, physicians, especially those in pain clinics, are increasingly caught between the growing burden of patient expectations and a tightening web of regulatory scrutiny. A recent clinical study and a related article on KevinMD converge to highlight a deeply troubling reality: Clinicians are not only being harassed by distressed patients but are also being punished by the systems meant to regulate or protect health care.
A …
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In the current era of rapid health care changes, a very effective tool for workforce development is research mentorship based on evidence-based principles. As the health care industry faces a worsening shortage of professionals, the need to cultivate talent, empower early-career clinicians, and guide them through structured research and professional development is becoming more urgent. Research mentorship offers a replicable and transformative framework for addressing the health workforce crisis.
Research mentorship …
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Specialist pain clinics and addiction management services are vital in addressing some of the most complex and costly health care conditions. However, their success depends on stable and robust primary care systems. Without strong primary care as a foundation, these health care initiatives risk fragmentation, poor continuity, and low patient accountability. Stable primary care ensures timely access, coordinated care, longitudinal monitoring, and patient engagement, all essential elements for the value-based …
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Canada is one of the few countries permitting Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for individuals with non-terminal chronic pain. While this respects individual autonomy, it also introduces a duty of care: We must ensure that death is not chosen because of inadequate care. Some Canadian advocacy groups, like the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), have expressed deep concerns over how MAiD is being expanded in Canada.
The BCCLA initially …
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In today’s evolving health care environment, value-based care is reshaping the future of medicine. The push toward value-based care demands innovative, cost-effective, and patient-centered solutions. A promising yet underutilized strategy is medicine repurposing, the practice of using existing medicines for new therapeutic purposes. Drug repurposing provides a strategic pathway to improving health outcomes while minimizing costs. A compelling example of this approach is the use of clonidine, a long-established cardiovascular …
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In the face of worsening health workforce shortages, Canada must shift from a culture of personal likability to a system of objective qualifications or merits in recruiting and retaining physicians. While team cohesion and interpersonal compatibility are essential, an overemphasis on “fit” or likability excludes talented physicians, particularly immigrants and racialized minorities, who may not share the cultural background, communication style, or social behaviors preferred by decision-makers. This practice undermines …
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In the current complex health care landscape, health care leaders are frequently challenged to make management decisions that are effective but also equitable. Numerous leadership transitions are occurring in Canada’s health care systems because of leadership failures. In British Columbia, multiple health care leaders were replaced in the first half of 2025. David Eby, British Columbia’s Premier, declared, “The anxiety that I have is that the people who see the …
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Canada prides itself on being a welcoming nation for immigrants, particularly those with advanced professional qualifications. However, Canada persistently underemploys highly skilled immigrant professionals, especially physicians. An official report by the Conference Board of Canada and the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) in 2023 confirmed that growing numbers of immigrants are leaving Canada within seven years of landing. Daniel Bernhard, ICC’s chief executive, stated, “It’s not good enough to just …
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