Assistant Professor
Duke University
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Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is an HIV health services researcher. Dr. Okeke’s research focuses on: 1) improving cardiovascular disease (CVD) care among persons living with HIV 2) leveraging health system informatics to optimize the HIV care continuum, from prevention to retention in HIV care. In the HIV and cardiovascular disease space his primary project, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), seeks to assess the effectiveness of integrating HIV clinic-based social workers into CVD-related primary prevention among persons with HIV. He has also served as a co-investigator in many investigator-initiated and consortium clinical trials on cardiovascular disease risk management in HIV. In the health informatics space, Dr. Okeke seeks to implement HIV risk quantification models into the electronic health records of two large health systems in Southeastern Louisiana, in an effort to better identify suitable candidates for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This work is currently funded by an R01 sponsored by NIAID and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. To date, he has authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications in the aforementioned fields. Dr. Okeke is also an HIV clinician, providing care at Duke and at the Warren-Vance Community Health Center, a rural Ryan White-funded clinic in Henderson, NC. He also serves as the Associate Program Director of the Duke Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program, and the Vice Chief for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within Duke’s Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Okeke also holds a Masters’ degree in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health.
