Tobe Momah, M.D, MSc, FAAFP, ABOM
Tobe Momah is an Assistant Professor in the department of Family Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical center (UMMC), and graduated from the University of Nigeria, College of Medicine Enugu in June 2000. He then proceeded to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London England where he obtained his Masters in Medical Parasitology in Sept 2004. He thereafter relocated to New York, and began medical residency in Family Medicine at the Brooklyn Hospital center, New York in 2007 where he graduated at the top of his residency class in 2010.
Between 2010 and 2017, he worked in Louisiana serving as Medical director of one of Louisiana’s largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and as a staff physician at the Angola Prisons, West Feliciana parish Louisiana and a practice in Arcadia, Louisiana. He moved to Jackson, Mississippi in February 2017 to begin his academic career. He is currently the principal investigator (P.I) of the Educational and Mentoring to BRing Access to CarE (EMBRACE) study for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and the Children from Homes in which Parents Singularly (CHIPS) raise the child study.
He serves as faculty advisor to the Rural Medicine Interest group and the Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA), Student groups in UMMC, School of Medicine and serves as a member of the Committee on continuous curriculum (CCC) review, at the department of Family Medicine, Medical Education Consortium in Greenville, Mississippi, and a member of the Council on Ethics and Judicial affairs (CEJA) for the Mississippi State Medical Association (MSMA).
In the last four years, Dr. Tobe Momah has also become Board certified in obesity Medicine, and alongside his peers at the River Chase weight management center is working towards pioneering medical weight management services at the UMMC Bariatric center in Flowood, Mississippi. These services include nutritional, surgical, psychological, and pharmacological intervention to lose weight. These services have carved a niche in a much needed area of need that was formerly unavailable.
In addition, Dr. Tobe Momah has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals, presented over 26 posters in different fora, and given over 36 oral lectures. He serves as an integral part of the department of Family Medicine’s leadership as the departmental Quality Co-ordinator, member of the departmental Patient safety committee, member Committee on continuous curriculum (CCC) review, and Member Professional practice evaluation committee for the University hospital.
Dr. Tobe Momah is also the author of over twenty books bordering from secular to spiritual, and is happily married to Rita Momah, a MS department of health employee with years of experience in public health. Alongside his wife, Dr Tobe leads annual medical missions to Africa (under the auspices of Faith and Power Ministries, Intl), and together they have two twin children named Kingsley and Gloria.