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Ugochi O. Ogu, MD

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Assistant Professor
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
D324 Coleman Building
956 Court Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Dr. Ogu currently serves as an Assistant Professor (Medicine-Hematology) at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Prior to this, she was associated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics. She obtained her medical degree at Windsor University School of Medicine in the West Indies, completed residency in Pediatrics at the University of Iowa, and fellowship in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medicine.

Her clinical interest focuses on sickle cell disease and transition of care from pediatrics to adult. Dr. Ogu was also associated with the Division of Hematology at Montefiore as the Assistant Director of the Sickle Cell Center for Adults.

Representative Publications:

Comorbidities in sickle cell disease: Adult providers needed!

Reduced blood pressure of CFTR-F508del carriers correlates with diminished arterial reactivity rather than circulating blood volume in mice

Successful Management of Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus Syndrome (BRBNS) with Sirolimus

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