Ozuru Ukoha, MD, MSc, FACS

Dr. Ozuru Ukoha, M.D., MSc, FACS, was born and raised in Nigeria, immigrating to the U.S. after high school. He graduated from University of Missouri-Kansas City with a degree in Pharmacy and from The University of Missouri-Columbia medical school. He trained in general surgery in New York and Connecticut and completed a Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship at Yale University. The bulk of his clinical practice has been at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County as a general thoracic surgeon. He considers it a labor of love and a privilege to give back to the community that has few advantages. In the last 20 years, he has won the Penfield Faber Teaching Award in Cardiothoracic Surgery, earned a master’s degree in Clinical Research at Rush University, served as President of the Medical Staff of John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital from 2013-2017. He is currently Chair of the Division Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rush University.