M Osita Nwaneri – Board Chair

Dr Nwaneri

M.Osita Nwaneri is the Chairperson of Sickle Cell Disease Advocates of Minnesota, a non-profit advocacy group. He is also a Pediatrician with tropical pediatrics training and experience from Nigeria, Ghana and the United Kingdom. He attended Medical School at the University of Nigeria  Nsukka from 1988 to 1995. He then had his residency training in General Pediatrics and fellowship in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology, University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria from 1998 to 2004. He then worked in the United Kingdom as a Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the postgraduate school of tropical child health after obtaining his masters degree in Tropical Pediatrics from the same school in 2005. In 2006 he worked as a Staff Grade Pediatrician at the Royal Cornwall Hospital and Torbay Hospital, both in Western England. He moved to the United States in March 2007. He has worked as a research associate in the Vascular Biology and Sickle Cell Research Laboratory, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplant at the University of Minnesota. He was also one of the founding scientists of the Sickle Cell Disease Program for Learning Assessment and Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. Since June 2008 he has been a resident doctor at the Pediatrics Residency training program of the University of Minnesota.

Dr Nwaneri has a passion for care and research in sickle cell disease and continues to be both and advocate and a care provider for the condition. View his full profile here