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Dr. Remi Okwechime, MD, MPH

Internist | Critical Care Medicine

2180 S Clinton Ave Rochester NY, 14618
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Dr. Remi Okwechime is a critical care surgeon practicing in Rochester, NY. Dr. Okwechime specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Okwechime has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.

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Internships

  • Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex - 2005-2006

Fellowships

  • Ochsner Health System - Neurocritical Care - 2019-2022

Professional Society Memberships

  • American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, Neurocritical Care Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine

Articles and Publications

  • Reducing Disability- Early Referral for Surgery in Medically Intractable Epilepsy Reducing Disability- Early Referral for Surgery in Medically Intractable Epilepsy Research Gate Nov 18, 2014
  • Lack of concordance between IDH1 mutation and 1p19q deletion in gliomas. Lack of concordance between IDH1 mutation and 1p19q deletion in gliomas. Journal of Neuro Oncology Nov 17, 2011
  • A case of hypokalemic paralysis

What do you attribute your success to?

  • She attributes her success to Jesus Christ.

Dr. Remi Okwechime, MD, MPH's Practice location

University of Rochester

2180 S Clinton Ave -
Rochester, NY 14618
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NEW ORLEANS, LA 70121
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