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SCS Lunch & Learn: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia with Dr. Okolo-Taku

The Virtual Lunch & Learn “SCS Lunch & Learn: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia with Dr. Okolo-Taku” was recorded for release on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. We would like to thank Dr. Okolo-Taku and the Ironwood Gilbert office for this video.

 

See video Introducing Dr. Okolo-Taku.

Dr.  Onyemaechi Okolo-Taku joined Ironwood Cancer & Research Centers in 2021. She has been blessed with a multicultural and multinational upbringing. This has greatly influenced her everyday interactions, her cultural competency, and her work. She was born in Nigeria, and lived there with her family until the age of 8, after which she moved to Texas. Subsequently she spent 3 years in an international boarding school in England. Dr. Okolo- Taku completed her undergraduate degree at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and after college moved to Spain for a little over 1 year.  She spent the first two years of medical school at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada and finished off in New York City. While in medical school she did international electives in Nicaragua and the Czech Republic. After NYC, she moved to Tucson Arizona, where she completed her internal medicine residency,  hematology and oncology fellowship, and  integrative medicine fellowship. She loves traveling, meeting new people, and learning about new cultures.

To learn more about Dr. Onyemaechi Okolo-Taku click here for here for her full bio.