Chidimma Umerah

Biology, Global Health, & Chemistry

As an aspiring community health researcher and OBGYN, I hope to shift the frame of reference in the field of women’s health. Many models, for example, pelvimetry, my field of interest, that are taught to practicing OBGYNS are centered around particular demographics and often lead to worsened birthing outcomes for women of marginalized groups. The work that I aspire to do deals with the synthesizing of equity assessments and obstetrics as I hope to be a crucial character in the redirecting of clinical priorities in regards to labor and delivery. I hope to transform various practices in medicine that are riddled with harmful biases. I aim to pursue a MD/PhD. I hope to dedicate my research to improving the practices of women’s health procedures and to eventually open my own lab dedicated to discovering techniques and procedures that lessen the equity gap in women's health. As of now, I've completed a three month scribing position at Baylor Scott and White Health, have accessed the Hammann-Todd Human Osteological Collection - a database of over 3000 human skeletons collected from 1912 to 1938 - which Caldwell and Moloy used to draw observations upon, and have been using Morphonet, an interactive morphological database, to draw my own conclusions. I will be attending SACNAS's National Diversity in Stem Conference in October. Aside from that, I enjoy teaching kids how to play volleyball and baking brownies with my SLG.