Senior Fellow

Nwadiogo Ejiogu, MD, MA

  • Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine

Nwadiogo Ejiogu, MD, MA is a physician-activist committed to supporting intersectional organizing efforts for health justice. Throughout her education and training, she has had the privilege of working collaboratively within social movements for Black queer and trans liberation, prison abolition, disability justice, reproductive justice, and health equity. Her scholarly work uses critical self-reflection and personal narrative to identify ways medical providers and institutions have cared for and harmed patients from marginalized communities.

Dr. Ejiogu holds an MD from Meharry Medical College, and an MA in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and the Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies from the University Of Toronto. She completed her residency training in anesthesiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and a fellowship in obstetric anesthesiology at Mount Sinai West in New York City.

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