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Supporting Untapped Potential and Brilliance: The Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health | Temerty Faculty of Medicine

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Chika Oriuwa (MD ’20) is passionate about supporting people. A psychiatry trainee with the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and a mother of two young children, Oriuwa continues to seek out new ways to support both the patients she cares for and the medical community to which she belongs. Her latest demonstration of support is a philanthropic gift to establish the Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health at Temerty Medicine. Each year, in perpetuity, the award will recognize a graduating MD student who has demonstrated their dedication to advancing health in the Black community. “When a medical student has invested into the Black community, which historically has maybe not been valued the same as other areas of medicine, I want them to know that they are seen and appreciated,” says Oriuwa. Oriuwa has spent her life examining what it means to truly support community members in vulnerable positions. Medicine has always been her main goal, but Oriuwa al

Supporting Untapped Potential and Brilliance: The Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health | Temerty Faculty of Medicine Skip to main content Feb 27, 2024 Supporting untapped potential and brilliance: the Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award for the Advancement of Black Health Alumni Profile, Alumni, Giving, Inclusion & Diversity Christie Vuong While a medical student, Chika Oriuwa (MD '20), served as an ambassador with Temerty Medicine’s Black Student Application Program and was named valedictorian for the MD Class of 2020 — the first Black woman to become Temerty Medicine’s sole valedict

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