EDI Spotlight: Oke Anakwenze, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

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When Oke Anakwenze, MD, MBA, was a medical student, it was hard for him to find mentors who looked like him. It was even harder once he began training in orthopaedic surgery, a field of medicine that is lacking in racial and ethnic diversity. In this month’s EDI Spotlight, Anakwenze shares how he’s trying to make the experience of finding mentors a bit easier for today’s underrepresented in medicine students, both in his role as shoulder section head in the Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and as diversity committee chair for the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He also tells us about his passions outside of Duke, which include discovering Italian recipes and relearning to cook dishes from Nigeria, where he spent many years growing up.

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