Ugochi Ogu, MD

Biography

Dr. Ogu is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and serves as the Medical Director of the Diggs-Kraus Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned her medical degree from Windsor University School of Medicine in the West Indies, completed her residency in Pediatrics at the University of Iowa, and pursued a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ogu’s clinical and research interests center on sickle cell disease, with a particular focus on the transition of care from pediatric to adult populations. She has made significant contributions to the field, including the discovery of a novel sickle cell variant, Hemoglobin S/Haringey.