Interview with Dr. Nwando Anyaoku
In today’s inspirational interview, Dr. Nwando Anyaoku teaches what health equity is, and how to pursue a career as a chief health equity officer.
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Dr. Nwando Anyaoku is Vice President and the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer for a large health system in the Seattle area. She has been there since 2016 leading the pediatrics and Medicaid strategy. More recently, she served as the physician lead for health equity and community partnerships, which led to her current position. She is a board-certified pediatrician and professor of pediatrics.
Prior to her arrival at her current system, Dr. Anyaoku served as the Division Chief of General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, then as the Medical Director of Pediatrics for CHI Alegent Creighton health system in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Education
Dr. Anyaoku received her medical degree from the University of Nigeria. She received residency training in pediatrics and served as chief resident at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey.
She holds an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. And she completed an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business.
Becoming Chief Health Equity Officer
Dr. Anyaoku has had an impressive career, with more to come. She is well-positioned to move into other leadership roles. And she had excellent advice about how to position yourself for positions with ever greater scope and responsibility.
She attributes her ability to move into progressive leadership roles to constantly learning and volunteering to lead new initiatives.
In addition to her work as Chief Health Equity Officer, she is a speaker, coach, and consultant. If you want to reach out to her, the best option is to go to her website at nwandanyaoku.com.
Summary
Bu constantly looking to pitch in and solve problems, Dr. Anyaoku learned new skills and demonstrated her competence for ever more challenging jobs. She is happy to come to your organization and speak about health equity and working as a Chief Health Equity Officer. She is also interested in coaching and mentoring young physicians who would like to follow her path to leadership.
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