Dr. Giwa is a graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD), George Washington School of Business (MBA), and the Clarkson University/Icahn School of Medicine (MBE). He majored in Philosophy at Clark University and entered medicine initially to pursue a career in Bioethics after leaving law (LLB-University of Ilorin). He initially trained in Anesthesia-Critical Care at Columbia Presbyterian before switching to Emergency Medicine at Cornell University's Lincoln Hospital program. 

Dr. Giwa is the Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center as well as a Volunteer Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. At the VA, he oversees all training programs in the facility. Prior to that, he was an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC. His academic/medical interests are in Law and Ethics in Healthcare, Combat Medicine, Resuscitation/Critical Care, and Difficult Airway Management. He has published extensively on these and other subjects and serves as an editor and reviewer for several medical journals.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians, and board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), as well as on its Critical Care, Legal, and JEDI Committees, and is the Founding Chair of AAEM's Ethics Committee.

Lastly, he is a Colonel in the US Army Reserve and the Command Surgeon for the 9th Mission Support Command in Hawaii, which oversees all reserve units in the Pacific to include Alaska. He has gone on multiple combat deployments in CENTCOM and AFRICOM and several missions around the world to include Germany, Morocco, Mongolia, Independent Samoa, and Guam.