Specialist Physician & Grandfather
Dr Emmanuel Udezue is a multi-talented consultant physician, columnist, and author with decades of impactful experiences across different continents. He devotes his time to providing career guidance to young people across the world and promoting solution-driven education to African students. He has been a responsible husband to Chika Norah for over 40+ years and a loving father of five children each of whom holds a responsible position where they live. As well as grandfather to 10 grandchildren.
Education
He was an award-winning student at the renowned Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, graduating with Grade 1 Distinction. Thereafter, he secured a Merit Federal Government Scholarship to study Medicine at the University of Ibadan.
His brilliant performance earned him an additional scholarship, making him a University Scholar. He graduated best in his class with many prizes and Distinction in many subjects.
He received postgraduate education in medicine from the University of London, The Royal London Hospital, and the University of London
at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Medical Practice
He had a stint at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, where he worked as a consultant physician and lecturer before moving to Saudi Aramco Oil Company, Saudi Arabia where he rose to the rank of head of District Internal Medicine Services and pioneered the initial treatment including thrombolysis, of patients who had a heart attack. He also set up innovative programmes for the management of both Diabetes mellitus in young people and Sickle cell Disease, both of which are prevalent in the company’s area of operation. Some of these activities were published in peer-reviewed medical journals such as Annals of Saudi Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Tropical Doctor, Tropical and Geographical Medicine, International Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology, West African Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Lancet, and Transactions of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
As a research Physician, he was the Deputy Medical Director of Chiltern Research, a clinical research company, that conducted clinical trials for new drugs in development. He also has publications in general magazines and newspapers like Luton Herald, Doctor, Hospital Doctor, World Medicine, Dorset Life, The Writer, Arabian Sun, and other periodicals.
He is passionate about teaching and inculcating the habit of reading in young people thereby enabling them to develop life-long, self-learning for updating knowledge. He encourages the early start of literacy and fluency in the Igbo language. He writes and contributes to discussions on Nigerian history and non-partisan politics especially as it affects Nd’Igbo. Thus his book, Ndi’IgbO Heroes aims at stimulating and encouraging young people to emulate their past heroes. With his wife Chika, he is the patron of the Igbo Community in Dorset, UK.
He is not just a doctor but equally a writer who has won awards from several bodies including the famous Winchester Writers Conference. He sometimes writes under the pen name Manuel Evans and has written for magazines and newspapers in Nigeria and UK under the name.