Chinwe Ogedegbe M.D., MPH, FACEP, board-certified emergency medicine physician, and epidemiologist. Section Chief for Research in the Emergency and Trauma Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Director of the NARAP- HUMC pipeline program.
Her work includes medical education research and focuses on the impact of evidence-based strategies to improve outcomes of diverse patients presenting to the Emergency Department, Smoking cessation programs, palliative care studies, as well as Grant funded/ public health initiatives that aim to decrease the stigma underlying blood-borne viral testing such as HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C, and integrate into routine care.