New OB Site Chiefs – LBJ & MHH
We’re pleased to announce our new OB Site Chiefs, Dr. Onyi Onuoha, at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Dr. Alice O’Brien, at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
Dr. Alice O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the Obstetric Anesthesiology division with an Adjunct Associate Professor position in the Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. She received her medical education, anesthesiology residency, and obstetric anesthesiology fellowship diplomas from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Dr. O’Brien is the Director of Perioperative Informatics for our department. She has been part of the Physician Informatics team for the county’s Harris Health System (LBJ and Ben Taub Hospitals) for over 10 years and also works as a clinical resource with the Memorial Hermann Informatics team. She is on Epic’s Labor & Delivery Anesthesiology Brain Trust and has Physician Builder training with the Epic Electronic Health Record. Her obstetric anesthesiology interests lie with advanced airway techniques, hematologic and coagulation disorders, and management of post-dural puncture headache.
Dr. Onyi Onuoha is an Associate Professor in the Obstetric Anesthesiology division and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences here at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. She is currently one of the Assistant Residency Program Directors with special interests in medical education, mentorship of residents in the department and creating initiatives that foster open discourse and self-reflection to improve workplace morale and address professionalism and culture-related issues in the department. Dr. Onuoha received both her medical and public health degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health respectively. After, she returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed a residency in Anesthesiology, a fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesiology and remained on faculty at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. In Obstetric Anesthesiology, she is invested in the care of the high-risk “critically-ill parturient” with specific interests in the cardiac and morbidly obese patient populations. Her current research interests include clinical issues in Obstetric Anesthesia, medical education, and resident physician wellness (adaptability and resiliency in training).
Congratulations to you both!