Community – Culture – Small Business
1/15/2026 – We are excited to announce that Dr Badero has joined African Restaurant’s Week’s Advisory Board. As a dynamic leader with extensive experience across many fields, Dr Badero brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that will be invaluable as we continue to grow and strengthen our initiatives.
His passion for supporting cultural initiatives and empowering small businesses aligns perfectly with our mission and we are confident his insights will help guide us as we embark on new projects and expand our impact.
African Restaurant Week is honored to have Dr Badero as part of our advisory team, and we look forward to collaborating with him to further our goals of boosting the local economy by supporting culture and small business, fighting hunger, fostering social good, building communal and cultural ties. Please join us in welcoming Dr Badero to the African Restaurant Week family!
Dr. Oluyemi O.Badero, MD., FACC
Dr. Oluyemi Badero, President and CEO of Cardiac Specialists of Brooklyn, LLC, earned his medical degree (M.B.ChB.) from Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), Nigeria before immigrating to the USA in 1988. Dr. Badero received his internship and residency training at SUNY Health Sciences Center/Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, where he also served as a Chief Medical Resident.
He completed an unprecedented nine (9) years of post-graduate training in four Specialties; Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology, the latter at Yale University Program, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Dr Badero is triple board certified and one of a very few group of African Americans in the U.S. that are Board Certified Interventional Cardiologists.
Dr. Badero is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at SUNY Medical School and has previously served as Chief of Cardiology with Director of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology at SUNY Medical School and affiliated hospitals in New York.
Dr. Badero has brilliantly excelled at all stages of his medical career. He was the best student in his class in primary school, high school, college and medical school. He won his first full academic academic scholarship for high school and college education, at a young age of eleven years from Barclays Bank of Nigeria. He also won the Federal Government National Merit Award and full scholarship for scholastic excellence in 1977 (Among the top 5 students with the best GPA in the preliminary Faculty of Health Sciences class at Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife). During his medical school graduation in 1984, Dr. Badero won a total of four academic prizes and distinctions (NMA prize for the best overall student, Glaxo-Allenbury’s prize for the best student in Pediatrics, Pediatric Association prize; and Obstetrics and Gynecology prize for the best student in Obs. & Gyn.). After emigrating to the U.S.A in 1988, Dr. Badero passed all the three components of the U.S Medical Licensing Board Exams, in one sitting, on the first attempt, barely four months after arriving in the U.S.A.
Dr Badero, widely published in several peer review journals and neighborhood magazines, is a recipient of several awards and prizes for academic and scholastic excellence locally, nationally and internationally including United States Congressional Award and Citation and the Great Ife Alumni award for Excellence and Distinction; African Diaspora Award; New York State Assembly Award; New York City Council Award etc. He has been featured in the Network Journal’s cover story on “Best Doctors in New York”, and was listed for the last consecutive fifteen years in “America’s Best Cardiologists” published by the Institute of National Consumer
Affairs, California. Dr. Badero was featured and received an award from the prestigious Castle Connolly Best Doctors in United States in the Specialty of Interventional Cardiology in 2012. He was also featured in the world acclaimed U.S News and World Report edition of “The Best Cardiologists in the United States as selected by their peers” in 2013. Dr. Badero was also recognized by President’s Barrack Obama’s White House Christmas Citizens Greetings for eight consecutive years from 2008 to 2016.
Dr. Badero has been featured in many other Newspapers and Magazines, both locally and Internationally including Brooklyn’s Caribbean Life; Rockaway’s Wave; Nigerian Punch, Guardian, Vanguard, Daily Tribune and This Day. Dr. Badero has trained, motivated and mentored many Medical students, Internal Medicine
Residents and Cardiology Fellows, most of whom have gone into very successful careers. His annual Guest Faculty presentation at the Association of Nigerian Physicians in America (ANPA) Convention on the “Residency and Fellowship Application Process in the USA” has consistently been highly rated.
Dr. Badero was inducted into Knighthood by the Knights of Columbus and earned the admirable title of “Sir, Dr. Oluyemi Badero”
Dr. Badero is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and an active member of many other professional organizations, including American Medical Association, National Medical Association, and the Association of Black Cardiologists.
He is the President, CEO and Medical Director of his own very successful Private Cardiology Practice in central Brooklyn, New York, “Cardiac Specialists of Brooklyn LLC” which he founded in 1998. He has clinical privileges at some of the best medical centers in New York including New York Presbyterian-Weil Cornell Hospital, New York University-Langone Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn and Kings County Hospital.
Dr. Badero on November 7, 2007, performed the first Coronary Angiogram and Cardiac Catheterization at Kings County Hospital Center and helped run that service for over 10 years. He trained at and has been affiliated with KCHC/HHC for over 30 years. Dr. Badero’s famous slogan to his patients is “When it comes to matters of the Heart, We get to the Heart of the Matter”
