Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare - 2016

Ozuah was born in Nigeria and obtained his medical degree there. He arrived at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a pediatric intern and resident. He became a leader and mentor in the institutions and has been prolific in conducting research and writing about health problems that disproportionately affect underserved communities, such as asthma, obesity and environmental exposures. Ozuah is credited with expanding access to healthcare for those communities and recruiting talented leaders during his tenure as physician-in-chief of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and chair of the department of pediatrics at Einstein. He assumed leadership of operations at the Bronx hospital in 2012.