Fellow
University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Chima Ndubizu is a second-year Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/ Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Ndubizu’s career has been dedicated to truly make a difference in women’s health, particularly among underserved populations.
Dr. Ndubizu was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States as a teenager and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Virginia. She went on to complete Post Baccalaureate work at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently attended medical school at Saint Georges University School of Medicine. Dr. Ndubizu then went on to complete the residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
As a resident, Dr. Ndubizu studied the impact of sleep deprivation and physical activity on technical and intellectual skills, and on psychological wellbeing amongst residents. She won the Maimonides Research Award in 2018 for her work in this funded study.
Dr. Ndubizu coauthored the abstract "Ethnic differences in anti-hypertensive medication response among pregnant and postpartum patients", which was the subject of a poster presentation at the 2020 SFMF Annual Meeting.
At the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dr Ndubizu has been intimately involved in COVID research in pregnancy and health disparities in maternal mortality among African American women. Dr. Ndubizu played a vital role in the Miami Mother-Baby COVID Collaborative’s funded study of COVID-19 in pregnancy. The results of which have already been published in CellR4. Her abstract, "Are socioeconomically disadvantaged pregnant patients disproportionally infected by SARSCoV2 virus", is the subject of this presentation. Additionally, Dr. Ndubizu has co-authored 2 abstracts being presented today. Currently, Dr. Ndubizu continues her research endeavors in the subject of cervical insufficiency and preterm birth.