A South Carolina native, Akintunde is a graduate of the Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon. She earned a Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Clark Atlanta University. She completed her medical residency at the Spartanburg Family Medicine Residency Program in South Carolina.She practiced family medicine and as a hospitalist in Thomaston. She lives in Rome with her family.








