Chief Medical Editor: Macaulay Onuigbo MD MSc FWACP FASN MBA Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Nephrologist/Hypertension Specialist/Transplant Physician, Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI, USA Vice Chairman, Nephrology Department, Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI, USA. MBA Executive/Professor-Instructor, UW College of Business, Eau Claire, WI, USA.
Background
Dr. Onuigbo is an Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA, and Nephrologist/Hypertension Specialist, Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI, USA. He is American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN), a Mayo Clinic MacMillan Scholar (2009-2011), a Mayo SOAR Research Grant Recipient, and a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP, Nephrology, 1989). Before leaving Nigeria in 1994, Dr. Onuigbo had served as a Consultant Physician/Attending Nephrologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (1989-1994) and a Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Nigeria, 1991-1994. Dr. Onuigbo had a brief stint as Honorary Renal Registrar, Renal Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in 1988 as a British Commonwealth Scholar. In medical school, at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria, Dr. Onuigbo was the best graduating student and scored distinctions in anatomy, physiology, medical biochemistry at the 2nd MB examinations, the best graduating student and scored distinctions in pharmacology and pathology at the 3rd MB examinations. He was the best graduating student of the 1981 class with the best results in the final MBBS examinations in Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Onuigbo has completed the following three Nephrology Fellowships: The West African College of Physicians Fellowship in Clinical Nephrology at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria (1989), a Research Nephrology Fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX under the tutelage of Professor Thomas DuBose (1996), and a Clinical Nephrology Fellowship with emphasis on Transplantation Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD (2002).
Experience
Dr. Onuigbo has over 120 peer-reviewed journal publications including Editorials, over 150 published conference abstracts, 18 book chapters and has published 3 specialty nephrology books. He has introduced several new concepts into the modern medicine/nephrology literature including the “vanishing vertebra syndrome” in sickle cell disease (1990) and in Pott’s disease (1993), respectively, Cytomegalovirus-induced glomerulopathy in renal allografts (2002), the syndrome of late onset renal failure from angiotensin blockade (LORFFAB; 2005), the concept of Renoprevention (2009), the syndrome of rapid onset end-stage renal disease (SORO-ESRD; 2010), “Physician Cognitive Drift” from the electronic medical record (2012), “Ethicomedicinomics” (2012), and “Quadruple Whammy” (2013). Dr. Onuigbo recently edited a major reference textbook on ACE Inhibitors in December 2013 that included 36 chapters, published in two volumes, drawing top world experts as contributors from the USA, South America, Europe including the United Kingdom, Asia including New Zealand, and Africa. Dr. Onuigbo’s major research and other awards include the Mayo Clinic/Mayo Health System MacMillan Management Scholarship Award (2009-2011) and the Mayo Clinic/Mayo Health System System-Oriented-Application-Research (SOAR) Grant (2010-2011). Most recently, Dr. Onuigbo received the Mayo Clinic Division of Nephrology & Hypertension Integration Award for 2014.
Dr. Onuigbo has served on the editorial boards of many nephrology specialty journals including the Quarterly Journal of Medicine and the International Journal of Clinical Practice, and serves as a reviewer for several general medicine, specialty and multi-specialty journals.
Furthermore, Dr. Onuigbo completed an MBA with Healthcare Emphasis in June 2012 from the University of Wisconsin Consortium. Dr. Onuigbo was awarded the 2012 University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium Most Outstanding MBA Graduate. He has completed recent published works in healthcare economics, medical bioinformatics and healthcare IT, non-dialytic therapy for ESRD patients, renoprevention, cost-reduction paradigms in healthcare, end-of-life care and other related healthcare fields.
Background
Dr Juliana Chizo Agwu is a Consultant Paediatrician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust and The Trust’s Children and Young Person’s Champion. She is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer/MBChB Deputy Admissions Tutor at University of Birmingham Medical School. She is the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH ) Principal Regional Examiner for West Midlands. She is currently a member of Panel of Expert Advisers for the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) centre for Guidelines and is an Executive member of the Advisory council of ISPAD (International society for Paediatric and adolescent diabetes. She is the Immediate Past National Chairman of the Association of Children’s Diabetes Clinicians UK and is also Paediatric Section Editor for the Diabetes Digest Journal. She was a member NICE Guideline Development Group that developed National guidelines for Diabetes Foot (2013-2015). She was Clinical Director of Paediatric Services at Sandwell and West Birmingham 2008-2016
Experience
Dr Chizo Agwu graduated from University of Nigeria Medical school in 1986 with distinction. She had post graduate training in various hospitals in United Kingdom including Birmingham Children’s hospital, The London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology at The Middlesex Hospital London, City hospital Birmingham obtaining Certificate for completion of specialist Training (CCST) in 1998. She has worked as Consultant Paediatrician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Sandwell and West Birmingham since 1998 where she has held several clinical leadership positions including being the Clinical Director between 2008-2016.
Dr Chizo Agwu has several publications in peer review journals as well as published abstracts in the field of Paediatric diabetes and Endocrinology with 1161 citations. She acts as a reviewer in several Paediatric journals including Archives of Disease of childhood. She has a wide experience in medical education. She is a member of the RCPCH exam board and as Principal Regional examiner for the West Midlands, takes a lead in generating exam questions for MRCPH post graduate exam in the region.
She has represented the Royal college as External examiner to several countries in the middle east and Africa. She is also an RCPCH Assessor of Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (START assessments). She is on the Executive committee of the Association of Children’s diabetes clinicians UK and part of the guideline development group that has been responsible for developing several National clinical guidelines relevant to the care of children and young people with diabetes.
