Ikwo Oboho, M.D., ScM, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and joined the UT Southwestern faculty in January 2022. She specializes in infectious diseases, especially domestic and global management of HIV and opportunistic infections, prevention and control of health care-associated infections, and infectious diseases outbreak control and response.

Dr. Oboho earned her medical degree at Vanderbilt University (2007). She completed a residency in internal medicine at Duke University (2010) and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University (2013). During her fellowship training, she completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2013). After her infectious disease fellowship, Dr. Oboho transitioned to public health and joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), an outbreak investigations fellowship at the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA as a medical epidemiologist (2013–2015). 

After her EIS fellowship, Dr. Oboho joined the Division of Global HIV and TB at the CDC and worked for the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and focused on increasing access to the diagnostics/therapeutics for the management of opportunistic infections among persons living with HIV with Advanced HIV Disease (2015–2021). At the VA North Texas Health Care System, Dr. Oboho serves as Director of the Infection Prevention and Control. She is also a Commander in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and has been an active-duty officer since 2013.