Medicine, policy, and the art of being understood.
Onyeka Otugo is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. She earned her MD and MPH at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, trained in emergency medicine at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, and completed a health policy research fellowship at Brigham and Women's alongside a Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Before medicine, she studied studio art and biology at the University of Maryland, a pairing that never left her, and held a research fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health. Her career has lived where communication meets care: as the former Director of Research for BWH's Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Social Justice, as an advisor to health quality and specialty board organizations, and now as a founder.
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