119: How To Have Your Cake, Eat It and Ice It, Too, with Doctor Mom Ihuoma Emenuga MD, MPH, MBA

“...and I was also tired of going to meetings where I had an opinion or someone else had an opinion, as a physician, on how the business was going, and you were literally told like, ‘Hey, just take your stethoscope and go back to the clinic. Go do what you really know how to do.’” -Ihuoma Emenuga, MD, MPH, MBA

In today’s episode, Dr Jen Barna talks with Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga. Dr. Emenuga walks us through her story, starting with her medical education at the University of Nigeria, then a move from Tunisia to London to pursue her MPH at University of London with her four children in tow, and then a move back to Tunisia followed by her move to the United States. Based on the needs of one of her children, she moved to the United States where she completed her residency training at Howard University, her MBA at University of Maryland, and continues to practice medicine, teach and do work in public health. Throughout her life she has shown bravery, strength and a love for medicine and knowledge. Now she is tackling the business of medicine in order to make healthcare work for everyone with Vie Health, to benefit patients, physicians and the bottom line of the organizations she serves. You won’t want to miss this episode! Tune in to hear an inspiring story of perseverance, believing in oneself, and raising resilient kids.

Ihuoma Emenuga, MD, MPH, MBA

Dr. Emenuga is the Medical Director at Chase Brexton Health Care Randallstown, where she provides clinical leadership, supervisory and management oversight to clinical providers and their teams while providing direct patient care. She is also on the faculty of The Residency Fellowship in Health Policy at George Washington University, where she teaches Health Economics and the Business of Medicine to physicians. She is passionate about designing health care systems that address the triple bottom line of healthcare productivity, patient experience and provider satisfaction, and is currently in the process of building a consortium of like-minded individuals and entities who have the shared purpose of building healthcare systems that work for everyone.

 

She received her residency training at Howard University Hospital in Washington D.C, her medical education at the University of Nigeria, and her MPH and MBA at the University of London (LSHTM) and University of Maryland (UMD) respectively.

 

Find out more about Vie Health at https://www.viehealth.org

 

Dr. Emenuga’s online profiles can be found at: 

https://rfhp.gwhwi.org/ihuoma-emenuga.html 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ihuoma-emenuga-md-mph-mba-79181a24/ 

https://chasebrexton.org/provider-search/E

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