EP 131: Dr. Edjah Nduom’s Residency of Reform
"You're taught to make them forget, to move into leadership. There's not a lot of neurosurgeons made every year - and so there's not a lot of young Black people talking about their experience.”
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Dr. Edjah Nduom is a Black neurosurgeon-scientist, activist, patient advocate, father, husband, son and brother. He gets paid to take out brain tumors and study how to treat them with the immune system. He does not get paid to pursue social justice, both inside and outside of medicine, but he does it anyway. Edjah is also the Co-Founder of Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform - an organization that wants to change the conversation on how negative encounters with the criminal justice system lead to detrimental health consequences in targeted communities. Born to immigrant parents from Ghana, he actually moved back to Ghana at the age of eleven, and found out his Nintendo cartridges weren’t compatible. Not too long after, he found himself back in the US, having earned and worked his way up through an elite medical system that still (does) not look like him. Edjah’s ’s now using his position to speak up more, and create a better system for us all.
LEARN ABOUT EDJAH
BIO: winshipcancer.emory.edu/bios/faculty/nduom-edjah.html
SOCIALS: instagram.com/eknduom // twitter.com/EKNduom
ORG: Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform - pfcjreform.org
OP-ED: “This Is a Moment to Demand Big, Sweeping Changes” - medscape.com/viewarticle/936774
ARTICLE: Emory neurosurgeon helps President Biden relaunch Cancer Moonshot
MENTIONS
BOOK: Doctors (Erich Segal): goodreads.com/book/show/91201.Doctors
SKIT: It’s Not Brain Surgery: youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I