November 07, (THEWILL) – The social media was agog about a week ago after former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, celebrated the laudable feat her son, Dr Uchechi Iweala, achieved within a few years of his medical practice. The amiable gentleman was one of the first spinal surgeons in Maryland, United States to perform a successfully navigated lumbar spinal fusion, using a robot.
THEWILL reliably gathered that Uchechi is an orthopaedist in Baltimore, Maryland who has been practising for less than three years now. He grew up in Maryland and attended one of the most expensive boarding schools in Washington D.C, St Albans School. He bagged both his Bachelor and Master’s degree from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. He specialised in Robotic Spine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Cervical and Lumbar Disc Replacement, Spinal fusions, Spinal injections, Spinal deformity and Degeneratic Disc.
Uchechi completed his residency training in Orthopaedic Surgery at George Washington University and has a fellowship in Spine Surgery at New York University. He is an accomplished author and researcher with numerous published books and academic papers, including International Journal of Spine Surgery and the Journal Orthopaedic to his credit.
With a passion for meeting surgical needs around the world, Dr Iweala has worked on many health projects in Ghana and South Africa. He recently co-founded a surgery centre, Capital Health Surgical Centre Abuja with his father, Dr Ikemba Iweala, who is a trained neurosurgeon. Uchechi belongs to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, North American Society and North American Spine Society. Just like his mother, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, who has scored many firsts in her career trajectory, especially as the first woman and African to lead the World Trade Organisation, Uchechi is also walking in her footsteps as one of the first spinal surgeons In Maryland to perform a successful surgery and Baltimore Magazine’s top doctors. He is married to Chioma Achebe, the granddaughter of the late literary icon Prof Chinua Achebe.
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