BFAM Member Spotlights

Meet the members of the Stanford Medicine Black Faculty Affinity Meetings (BFAM), a network created through OFDD's Community Support Initiative. BFAM is intended to provide networking and social engagement opportunities for Stanford Medicine faculty across all clinical lines and departments.

Mgbechi Ugonna Erondu

Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Research Interests
UIM mentorship, fiction writing and the medical humanities, perioperative management of pediatric palliative care patients, interdisciplinary care of persons living with sickle cell disease, and equitable and inclusive global health practices.

Something you wouldn’t know just by looking at me
I am writing a novel!

What are some of your favorite restaurants?
I don’t have a favorite restaurant—yet… But I love Boba!

What are some of your favorite social activities?
Binge watching documentaries, a nice outdoor lunch date, spending time in the sun

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Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

erondu@stanford.edu

Bio

Mgbechi Ugonna Erondu, MD MFA is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine and the Division of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care at Stanford University and is board-certified in Pediatric Anesthesiology and board-eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Her academic interests include the intersection between fiction writing and medical humanities, perioperative management of pediatric palliative care patients, interdisciplinary care of persons living with sickle cell disease, and equitable and inclusive global health practices.