Udochukwu Asonye

MD

I am a Graduate of Renown Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar with Late His Excellency Francis Akanu Ibiam as Principal, Medical School at the University of Ibadan in 1972 interrupted by and served in the Biafran Army during the Civil War with Distinction in Pediatrics and the Lady Manuwa Medal for Maternal and Child Health. Interned at the University of Nigeria then proceeded in June, 1974, to the University of Illinois at Chicago where I completed my Residency in Pediatrics and Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in June, 1978. Served as a Assistant Professor of Neonatology/Pediatrics at the University of Chicago then established the first private Neonatology Group primarily to provide and upgrade Neonatal-Perinatal Services in Community Hospitals in Metropolitan Chicago, later, expanding to Central Illinois and Northwest Indiana.

Since 1980, been very active in Charity Medical Care and Education in Nigeria, involved in multiple Clinical and Educational Medical Missions to Abia State and other parts of Nigeria working with 5 States in the Evaluation/Establishment of 3 Tier Maternal/Child Health Systems. My work was very much instrumental in the establishment of the Neonatal-Perinatal Units of Imo State University Teaching Hospital, a Not-for-Profit Private Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Calabar and Katsina Women & Children’s Hospital.

I am elated to be part of the African Primary Healthcare Foundation.