Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellow at Texas Children's Hospital
Mgbechi Ugonna Erondu, M.D., M.F.A. is a Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellow at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine and a graduate of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds a B.A. with Honors in Anthropology from Princeton University. During her time at Iowa she received a Humanities Distinction and was recipient of the 2016 Plughaupt Prize for Fiction. Her work has been published in The Examined Life journal and most recently in McSweeney’s. Her primary interests include pediatric anesthesiology, narrative medicine, diversity, equity and inclusion, and palliative care.