Background
Ahizechukwu C Eke, M.B.B.Ch., M.P.H., is a specialist in maternal-fetal medicine with areas of clinical and research expertise in medical and surgical complications of pregnancy with a focus on prediction and prevention of preterm birth, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacogenomics, pharmacomicrobiomics, maternal-fetal medicine, multiple pregnancies, obstetric ultrasound and HIV in pregnancy.
Dr. Eke earned his undergraduate degree from Federal Government College, Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria, and his medical degree from the College of Medicine, University of Calabar, Nigeria. He completed two obstetrics and gynecology residencies – at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria (2005-2010) and at Michigan State University/Sparrow hospital, which he completed in 2016, and then completed Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland in 2019. He earned an MPH from the Harvard University School of Public Health in 2011, and a PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation (GTPCI) in 2021. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN), maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) and Clinical Pharmacology. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2019.
Dr. Eke serves on a number of national boards and committees. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, Delta Omega Alpha, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Medical Association, the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and the Infectious Disease Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is currently on the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Health Policy Committee, and serves on the Committee on Practice Bulletins (CPG) and Genetics committee of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr Eke is an editorial board member of Obstetrics and Gynecology (the Green Journal) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM Evidence). He is an active member of NIH study sections.
Dr. Eke has published many articles in obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine journals, and written numerous textbook chapters. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Maternal Health, Neonatology & Perinatology journal. He is a journal reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals in his specialty, including Obstetrics & Gynecology (Green Journal), American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gray Journal), and the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.