Prof. Adaeze O. Nwankwo

Nineteen years on the wards, and twelve books that came out of them.

Adaeze Nwankwo qualified in medicine from the University of Ibadan in 2007 and completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the National Hospital, Abuja, where the general medical take — and the diagnostic pressure it applies — shaped what became a career-long interest in how clinical judgement is formed and taught.

Appointed Consultant Physician at the University Teaching Hospital in 2014 and Professor of Internal Medicine in 2019, the work has run along two tracks that feed one another: an unbroken general medical practice, and the writing that has come out of it. The first textbook was written in response to a specific frustration — reference texts that assumed a formulary and a laboratory turnaround most of the region does not have.

• General internal medicine
• Cardiovascular risk & hypertension
• Clinical education & assessment
• Public health systems
• Clinical governance
• Medical writing & editing