Dr. Nwomeh is a professor of surgery and pediatrics at the Ohio State University. He is the vice-chair of global surgery in the department of surgery at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and the program director for pediatric surgery fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH. His research focus is on understanding surgical capacity and burden of surgical diseases in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Nwomeh has helped promote global surgery as an academic surgical field, and was the founding chair, Global Affairs Committee of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and former chair, Committee for Global Academic Surgery of the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). Dr. Nwomeh had his medical training at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Ohio State University. He completed a general surgery residency at the Medical College of Virginia, and a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Children’ Hospital, Pittsburgh. Dr. Nwomeh is currently president of the Association of Pediatric Surgery Training Program Directors (APSTPD), Associate Editor for Global Surgery for the Journal of Surgical Research, and a member of the Board of Governors for the American College of Surgeons.