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Commencement 2017: Chukuemeka Ogudu, MS in Stem Cell Biology<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n \u00a0Kory Hamane<\/span>\n \n May 10, 2017<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Chukuemeka Ogudu and Kory Hamane will graduate with a Master of Science in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine on May 13. (Photo\/Cristy Lytal)<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n \n \n \n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\nHow far would you go to provide a better life for your family or your country?
\nChukuemeka Ogudu or, as his friends know him, Emeka, moved to America to become a doctor. He pursued his master\u2019s degree in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine<\/a> at USC with the goals of financially providing for his family and of improving health care in his home country.
\nOgudu was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where he lived for nine years. Looking for better opportunities for Ogudu and his three brothers, his parents moved to London for three years. Becoming a doctor has been on Ogudu\u2019s mind ever since.
\n\u201cI noticed that a lot of the common diseases in the UK are looked at as no big deal because they can be treated with ease,\u201d Ogudu said. \u201cAnd if one were to catch these same diseases in Nigeria, then they would probably die, because they simply don\u2019t have the doctors to take care of them.\u201d
\nDue to his father\u2019s job as part of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Ogudu and his family moved back to Nigeria for two additional years. However, because of the lack of educational opportunities in Nigeria, they moved in with extended family in Montreal, Canada, where they resided for three years.
\nOnce he completed high school, Ogudu traveled to the United States by himself in order to attend Texas Tech University, where he obtained his bachelor\u2019s degree in biology and shadowed different doctors every year. During the summer after his sophomore year, Ogudu traveled to Minnesota, where he spent three months learning more than he could imagine from an emergency room physician.
\n\u201cI saw everything during that summer in terms of medicine,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw something as small as someone getting a few stitches to something as big as dealing with a head trauma from a car accident. Simply incredible.\u201d
\nNow that he has obtained his master\u2019s degree in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at USC, Ogudu plans to pursue a medical degree and complete his residency before moving back to Nigeria.
\n\u201cI miss my aunts and uncles back in Nigeria,\u201d he said. \u201cThe one thing that keeps me going is knowing that I have the opportunity to provide a better life for them and to provide better health care for the people of Nigeria when I become a doctor.\u201d\n<\/div>\n
The author of this article, Kory Hamane, is also graduating from the master\u2019s program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.<\/em><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124,17,110],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-commencement-2017","tag-stem-cell","tag-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCommencement 2017: Chukuemeka Ogudu, MS in Stem Cell Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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