Meet the Fellows

CHIGOZIRIM EKEKE
• Served as President of the Student National Medical Association
(SNMA). Nominated as local chapter president of the year out of
three nominees and twelve local chapter presidents in region.
• Organized a lecture series on the importance of higher education
and cardiovascular health for sixth grade students at the
Columbus Collegiate Academy; OSUCOM’s chapter was
nationally recognized at the American Medical Education
Conference in April 2013 and ranked number 1 for community
service.
• In April 2013, appointed National Chair of Health Policy and
Legislative Action Committee and member of the Board of
Directors of SNMA. He is the first student from OSU to be
appointed in a national position.
• Case report, Annuloaortic Ectasia in a patient with Congenital Absence
of the left Pericardium, was accepted for publication in the Annals of
Thoracic Surgery, a peer-reviewed medical journal and official
publication of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Southern
Thoracic Surgical Association.