Dr. Akhetuamhen completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Nigerian immigrants and received her BS in Biochemistry from the University of Kentucky and her MD from the Yale School of Medicine. While at Yale, she worked as a teaching assistant for Yale Summer Medical and Dental Education Program and received the Downs International Research Fellowship to analyze the impact of educational interventions on mental health attitudes among medical professionals at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. As a resident, she developed a cultural competency curriculum that is now part of the required core curriculum for all emergency medicine trainees at Northwestern. Dr. Akhetuamhen is a Northwestern Health Equity and Advocacy Clinical Scholar, a member of the McGaw Graduate Medical Education Committee, and serves as President of the Northwestern McGaw Underrepresented Residents and Fellows Forum. She received the John X Thomas Best Teachers of Feinberg award and was elected to the Gold Humanism Honors Society.
Research interest: Utilizing cross-cultural education, implementation science, and community-based participatory research methods to improve disparities in emergency medical care, specifically for patients with cardiovascular disease.