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Chidinma C. Nwakanma, MD
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Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
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Attending Physician, Penn Presbyterian Emergency Department and Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
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Interviewer, Emergency Medicine Residency, HUP
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Physician Lead, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, PPMC
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Residency Recruitment Committee, HUP/PPMC
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Investigator, Health Equity Quality Improvement Project, PPMC
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Panelist, Addressing Gun Violence: An Urgent Community Discussion, HUP
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Panelist, Medical Student Orientation, Perelman School of Medicine at UPENN
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Penn Injury Science Senior Scholar, PPMC
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Vice Chair of Community Engagement and Health Equity, Department of Emergency Medicine
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Department: Emergency Medicine
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Department of Emergency Medicine
1a 3400 Spruce Street
39 Ground Ravdin Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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39 Ground Ravdin Building
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
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3b Ross University School of Medicine, 2011.
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36 Northeast Ohio Medical School, 2013.
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
21 7 MD 15 (Medicine) c
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36 Northeast Ohio Medical School, 2013.
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Description of Other Expertise
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cb Chidinma Nwakanma: Staying safe during extreme heat: How to protect yourself against heatstroke and dehydration. PHL 17 News 2025.
91 Liz Tung: How to Avoid a Trip to the ER on Super Bowl Sunday. WHYY 2025.
9b Emily Laurence: What you should never, ever do after a Fall. Parade Magazine 2025.
d6 Fox 29: "Health Watch: staying healthy in Extreme Heat" Effects of Extreme Heat on people taking Certain Medications. \{Fox 29 } 2024.
78 Niamh Rowe: Keep Your Cool. AARP Magazine 2023.
cb Steve Keeley: "Shot: We The Mothers" exhibit highlights mothers who lost children to gun violence Fox 29 Philadelphia July 2022.
93 Chidinma Nwakanma: Gun Violence: A Reckoning. Penn Medicine Magazine 2022.
9c Chidinma Nwakanma: A Case of Mistaken Identity or Blantat Bias? Medpage Today 2022.
35 Zaf Qasim 89 Chidinma Nwakanma: The Cycle of Gun violence in Philadelphia is Sickening. The Philadelphia Inquirer 2022.
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Selected Publications
9a Zoe Read: Philadelphia region faces record-breaking temperatures. WHYY News 2025.cb Chidinma Nwakanma: Staying safe during extreme heat: How to protect yourself against heatstroke and dehydration. PHL 17 News 2025.
91 Liz Tung: How to Avoid a Trip to the ER on Super Bowl Sunday. WHYY 2025.
9b Emily Laurence: What you should never, ever do after a Fall. Parade Magazine 2025.
d6 Fox 29: "Health Watch: staying healthy in Extreme Heat" Effects of Extreme Heat on people taking Certain Medications. \{Fox 29 } 2024.
78 Niamh Rowe: Keep Your Cool. AARP Magazine 2023.
cb Steve Keeley: "Shot: We The Mothers" exhibit highlights mothers who lost children to gun violence Fox 29 Philadelphia July 2022.
93 Chidinma Nwakanma: Gun Violence: A Reckoning. Penn Medicine Magazine 2022.
9c Chidinma Nwakanma: A Case of Mistaken Identity or Blantat Bias? Medpage Today 2022.
35 Zaf Qasim 89 Chidinma Nwakanma: The Cycle of Gun violence in Philadelphia is Sickening. The Philadelphia Inquirer 2022.
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