At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Philip Ozuah, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor in the pediatrics and epidemiology & population health departments. He also serves as the Montefiore Health System President.
In 1992, Professor Philip O. Ozuah joined the pediatrics faculty at Einstein/Montefiore, where he later held the position of Director of the Residency Training Program in Social Pediatrics from 1999 to 2005.
He joined the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in 2002 and was named Vice Chairman for Clinical and Educational Affairs of the Department of Pediatrics. In 2003, he was elevated to the position of Professor of Pediatrics and Family Medicine and Community Health. He was named Interim University Chairman of the Pediatrics Departments of the College and Montefiore in 2005.
The NIH, the Health Resources and Services Administration of DHHS, and other private foundations have supported Professor Ozuah’s research, which has been primarily concerned with environmental exposures and medical education. More than 250 presentations at national and international scientific events are listed in his bibliography, along with more than 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, 200 published abstracts, and more.
He is a member of the Masters in Clinical Research Training Grants Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal Ambulatory Pediatrics. He also reviews articles for numerous pediatric and environmental health journals.
All of the prestigious teaching honors given out by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s university department of pediatrics have been bestowed upon him, including the Leo M. Davidoff Society induction for Outstanding Teaching, the Harry Gordon Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching, the Lewis M. Fraad Award for Excellence in Resident Teaching, the William Obrinsky Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, the Samuel Rosen Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Clinical Curriculum, and the Harry Gordon Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching. Nationally, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association honored him in 2004 with the Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Pediatric Education and its Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2003, he also won the Helfer Award from the APA.
Philip Ozuah has donated $1,000,000 (#700,000,000) as an alumnus of the Medical College, University of Ibadan.
He claimed that, “UI’s medical college shaped and refined him into the man he is today, so he has the duty to give back to the school.”
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