First African American woman set to become chief medical officer - The Hudson Reporter

Ije Akunyili, is acceptable to marque past arsenic the archetypal African American pistillate to go Chief Medical Officer astatine the Jersey City Medical Center.

“I americium grateful for this opportunity, and I look guardant to serving the residents of Hudson County and continuing to supply safe, innovative, efficient, and equitable care,” said Akunyili. “It is simply a existent privilege to pb the objective effort astatine Jersey City Medical Center and to make sustainable wellness outcomes for our community.

She is the girl of Dora Akunyili, who served arsenic the erstwhile Director-General of the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

Prior to being elected arsenic a recently Chief Medical Officer, she took a presumption arsenic the seat of the exigency medicine astatine Waterbury Hospital, a Level II trauma teaching hospital, according to a property release.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Akunyili past went disconnected to implicit her emergency medicine residency astatine the McGovern Medical School astatine UTHealth Houston.

“Dr. Akunyili has a wealthiness of acquisition and knowledge, and arsenic our Chief Medical Officer, we look guardant to creating a world-class acquisition for each diligent astatine Jersey City Medical Center. I americium assured that Hudson County volition payment successful a large mode from her leadership, and that her beingness volition person tremendous impact,” said Michael Prilutsky, president and Chief Executive Officer of the Medical Center.

In addition, she earned an MPA successful planetary improvement from the John F. Kennedy School of Government astatine Harvard University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business astatine the University of Pennsylvania.

She was besides awarded the 2019 Medical Director of the Year Award for the awesome turnaround of the Waterbury Hospital Emergency Department.

Akunyili and her hubby are the parents of 2 teenage children.

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