Chizoba Ugwummadu, MD, MSc, MS-HQSM, FACP

Healthcare Quality & Safety

American Board of Internal Medicine 
ECFMG

Dr. Ugwummadu is a Hospitalist with Kettering Health, a large healthcare network in southwest Ohio. Dr. Ugwummadu is a healthcare quality and safety expert with special interest in quality performance, value-based care, and patient safety outcomes. Throughout his career that spans across 3 continents, he has assisted several hospitals to achieve their quality initiatives and improvements goals, including but not limited to improving patient transfer process, reducing inappropriate antibiotics use, throughput improvement, sepsis management and code sepsis implementation, and reducing device-related surgical site infection. His quality initiative in reducing device-related surgical site infection at Kettering Health helped JCPH win a national award, the CAHME/Regina Herzlinger National Award on Innovation in Education in 2022 and was recognized by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Ugwummadu was born and raised in Nigeria. He received his medical degree from the University of Lagos, a master’s degree in health promotion from King’s College London and another master’s degree in healthcare quality and safety management from Jefferson College of Population Health. His residency training was at Yale New Haven Hospital, St Raphael Campus. His first job was at St. Clare’s Hospital at Wisconsin during which he was also an adjunct clinical professor of medicine with the Medical College of Wisconsin.

He is married with three children. He loves running with his wife, playing soccer with his children and traveling.