Olaoluwa (Ola) Okusaga is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with clinical interest in the psychopharmacological treatment of adult patients with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. He attended Ogun State University Medical School in Shagamu, Nigeria, completed a Master of Science in Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and undertook psychiatry residency training at Saint Elizabeth Hospital Residency Program, Washington, DC. He is the Clinical Lead for the Bipolar and Schizophrenia Treatment (BeST) clinic and Director of the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) clinic at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He is involved in medical student, psychiatry resident, psychology intern and physician assistant training at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. His primary area of research is metabolic syndrome and its sequelae in people with severe mental illness. His research involves the evaluation of the associations between inflammatory biomarkers, endothelial markers, and lipids metabolic syndrome. His current research focus is the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms of metabolic syndrome-related cognitive impairment during mid to late-life in patients with schizophrenia. He is currently funded by the Veterans Affairs R&D as the PI of a genomic study in schizophrenia and as the Houston Site Investigator of the Million Veteran Program. He has over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals and four book chapters.