Dr. Boghuma Titanji is an infectious disease fellow at Emory University. Dr. Titanji earned her MD in Cameroon, followed by 2 years in general practice before moving to England to pursue graduate school. She earned her Master's in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene followed by a Ph.D. in Infectious diseases from University College London. She then completed residency training in internal medicine at Emory before pursuing her ID fellowship. Dr. Titanji has been a TED talk speaker and was one of the BBC’s 100 Women Changing the World in 2014 for her work on advancing ethically sound research. Today, she shares her unique pathway to earning her MD-PhD, why the physician-scientist pathway is important and how it can be improved.

Credits:

Our thanks to Dr. Titanji for being on the podcast.

Follow Dr. Titanji on twitter: @Boghuma

Dr. Titanji’s faculty page: https://med.emory.edu/departments/medicine/divisions/infectious-diseases/education/current-fellows.html

Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/boghuma_kabisen_titanji_ethical_riddles_in_hiv_research

Website: https://theiddoc.net/

BBC’s 100 Women Changing the World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Women_(BBC)

Host: Bejan Saeedi

Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke

Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen

Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh

Associate Producer – Josh Owens

Faculty Advisor – Dr. Brian Robinson

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