Maureen Okam-Achebe has been introduced as a recipient of the 2024 College Improvement and Variety Awards by Brigham and Girls’s Hospital of Harvard Medical Faculty.
Triple-board licensed in medical oncology, haematology, and inside medication, Maureen is the daughter of famend novelist Chinua Achebe, and an affiliate professor at Harvard Medical Faculty and director of Harvard College’s Brigham and Girls’s Hospital Outpatient Infusion Centre. She additionally serves because the medical director of the Non-Malignant Hematology Clinic and the director of the Brigham and Girls’s Hospital Sickle Cell Programme. Moreover, she is an teacher in medication at Harvard Medical Faculty.
A letter from the chief medical officer of Brigham and Girls’s Hospital, Charles A. Morris, shared by her brother Chidi Achebe, reads, “It’s with nice pleasure that I announce you as a recipient of the Brigham and Girls’s Hospital 2024 College Awards, nominated by Dr Nancy Berliner. The 2024 College Awards designation acknowledges the distinctive achievements of BWH college in a number of of the 4 pillars of educational life: medical care, analysis, training, and group service.”
Chidi additionally celebrated along with his sister, saying, “Sweetie: Very pleased with you. Carry on protecting on!”
On October twenty eighth of this 12 months, on the annual assembly of the medical workers, Maureen might be honoured as a recipient of the 2024 College Improvement and Variety Awards, the place the hospital will rejoice her and her accomplishments.