MACAULAY ONUIGBO, MD MSc MBA
Dr. Mac Onuigbo is a Professor of Medicine at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. He is the Medical Director of the UVMMC Home Dialysis Program. He received his MD degree from the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, in 1981 and was the best graduating student in Medicine and Surgery. He has completed several Internal Medicine Residencies and Nephrology/Transplant Nephrology Fellowships in Nigeria, in the United Kingdom and in several medical centers here in the United States. His training centers include the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, and the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. He retired as an Associate Professor of Medicine, from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI in January 2018 after more than 15 years of meritorious clinical and academic service.
He is American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) board-certified in Internal Medicine and in Nephrology, a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN), a Mayo Clinic MacMillan Scholar (2009-2011), a Mayo SOAR Research Grant Recipient, and a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP, Nephrology, 1989). Dr. Onuigbo was a Consultant Nephrologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, 1989-1994. Dr. Onuigbo established the first Hemodialysis Center in Eastern Nigeria at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria, in 1990. He has over 30 years of leading Research Nephrology and Clinical Nephrology and Hypertension experience and has practiced nephrology in three continents – in Nigeria, in the United Kingdom and in the USA. Dr. Onuigbo has over 300 scientific publications including books, book chapters, over 100 PubMed-cited articles and over 190 conference abstracts. Dr. Onuigbo has described several new clinical syndromes in the English literature.