Feb 27, 2024
Supporting untapped potential and brilliance: the Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health
Alumni Profile, Alumni, Giving, Inclusion & Diversity
![Chika Oriuwa, MD, poses in front of a grey back drop. She is wearing a pink blouse with a one large rouched sleeve on her right shoulder and has a black stethoscope around her neck](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_width_1750/public/assets/news/image/Oriuwa.Home%20Page%20Image.jpg?itok=Q6Iq1kFS)
Christie Vuong
While a medical student, Chika Oriuwa (MD '20), served as an ambassador with Temerty Medicine’s Black Student Application Program and was named valedictorian for the MD Class of 2020 — the first Black woman to become Temerty Medicine’s sole valedictorian.