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Published on: 7/6/2004
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Anthony O. Udekwu: Doctor to join hosptal staff.
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Dr. Anthony O. Udekwu will join the hospital's staff and the surgical faculty at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo as a full professor, said Cinda Courtney, a Tech spokeswoman.
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The program will kick off Aug. 1 with initial evaluations, and the first surgeries are expected in October, Udekwu said.
"We're going to do the Roux-en-Y (procedure), but I'm sure you know there is no one operation that works for everybody," he said.
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Udekwu will be in private practice with his office at the Women's Healthcare Associates building next to Northwest, said Derrick Miles, a NWTHS assistant administrator.
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Udekwu, a Chicago native and son of a heart surgeon, said he taught at the University of Pittsburgh for 13 years after training at the University of Chicago.
He came to Amarillo following a five-year stint at Case Western Reserve