Career
Career | Employment
Current | Positions
Founder, President and Chair, 2019—
— The Alvan Ikoku Group LLC
Founder, President and Chair, 2017—
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Charitable Trusts
— The Chinyere and Chinelo Ikoku Foundation
— The Alvan Azinna Chibuzo Ikoku Foundation
— Publiks Inc
Academic | Appointments
— Senior Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health Stanford University School of Medicine, 2015-18
— Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Medicine Stanford University, 2014-18
— Andrew W Mellon Fellow of Scholars in the Humanities Stanford University, 2013-2014
— Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2011-2013
Course Instructor | Professor
— Africa in Atlantic Writing, Stanford University, 2015-18
— Literature and Human Experimentation, Stanford University, 2015-18
— Literature and Global Health, Stanford University, 2014-18
— Narrative Ethics and Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2012
— Bioethics and Medical Humanities I and II, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2008-2013
— Nigeria and its Narratives, Columbia University, 2010
— Ideas of Africa in Atlantic Writing, Columbia University, 2009
— Literary Texts, Critical Methods, Columbia University, 2008
— University Writing, Columbia University, 2005-2007
Academic | Affiliations
— Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages — Department of Comparative Literature, 2013-18
— Division of General Medical Disciplines — Department of Medicine, 2014-18
— Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, 2014-18
— Stanford Center for African Studies, 2014-18
— Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, 2014-18
Education
Formation | Training
Doctoral | Degrees
PhD English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2013
MD Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 2004
Masters | Degrees
MA African Literature, University of London (SOAS), 1999
MPhil Economic and Social History (of Medicine), University of Oxford, 1998
Undergraduate | Degrees
AB Human Biology and Honors in Humanities, Stanford University, 1996
AA General Science, Santa Monica College, 1993
Awards
Honors | Recognition
For | Teaching
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 2010
Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, 2001
For | Research
Columbia University GSAS Merit Award (for dissertation research), 2009 and 2010 Reid Hall Pre-dissertation Research Award (for archival work in France), 2006
Fellowships
Competitive | Support
For | Research
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011 Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellows Program, Columbia University, 2009-2011
Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellowship (for doctoral studies at Columbia), 2004-2009
For | Teaching
Teaching Fellowship, Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, 2009-2010
— History of Racialization in the US, Columbia University, 2010
— Introduction to Asian American Studies, Columbia University, 2010
— Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies, Columbia University, 2009
For | International Clinical Work
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (for clinical work in Gabon), 2003
Clinical Fellow, Service de Médecine Interne et Tropicale, Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Gabon, 2003
Clinical Extern, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France, 2003
For | International Studies
Rhodes Scholarship, 1996-1999
Articles & Essays
Journals of Medicine and Ethics
with Char D, Lee SS, Rosenthal D, Magnus D. Can Destination Therapy Be Implemented in Children with Heart Failure? A Study of Provider Perceptions – Pediatric Transplantation, 20(6), Sept 2016: 819-824.
Conscience, Values, Justice in Savulescu – Virtual Mentor, 15(3), March 2013: 208-212.
Refusal in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’: Narrative Ethics, Conscientious Objection – Virtual Mentor, 15(3), March 2013: 249-256.
Telling – Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2(2), Fall 2012: E1-E4.
Articles & Essays
Journals of Literary and Cultural Criticism
Invited Talks
with Linked Audio
Ethics and Literature: Clinical Approaches – Program in Narrative Medicine | Columbia Univ – Oct 2012
Global Health Ethics in Richard Selzer’s ‘Imelda’ – Medical Ethics and Health Policy | Univ of Penn – Aug 2011
Invited Talks & Guest Lectures
Narrative Ethics and Global Health – Plenary, Workshop in Narrative Ethics | Columbia University – Apr 2016
Narrative from the Perspective of HIV in South Africa – Humanities Institute and School of Med | Duke Univ – Nov 2015
Narrative, Global Health, and the Ethical Deliverance of Others– Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics – Apr 2015
Malaria and the Onset of Kenyan Literature – Department of Anthropology | Stanford University – Oct 2014
The Medical Literature of 1930s Kenya – Center for African Studies | Stanford University – May 2014
Literature at Life’s End: A Conversation with Sunita Puri, MD – Humanities Center | Stanford University – Feb 2014
Literary Practice and Criticism in Medicine – Program in Narrative Medicine | Columbia Univ – Apr 2013
Forms of Global Health – English Dept and Mellon Committee on Health and Humanities | Emory Univ – March 2013
Narrative in Withdrawal of Care – Geriatrics and Gerontology | Weill Cornell Medical College – May 2012
Narrative Ethics for End-of Life – Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology | Weill Cornell Medical College – Nov 2011
The Duties of Science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Narrative Medicine | Columbia Univ – Sept 2009
Papers at Conferences & Workshops
Nigeria, its Literatures, and Novel Perspectives on Health – Annual Mtg | African Studies Association – Dec 2016
Health and Modern Literature in Kenya– Annual Meeting | African Literature Association – Apr 2016
Forms of Delivery in South Africa – Annual Meeting | American Comparative Literature Association – March 2016
On Global Health and Reading Publics – Annual Meeting | Modern Languages Association – Jan 2016
Ethics and Literatures of Public Health: The Case of Kenya – Annual Mtg | Modern Languages Assoc – Jan 2016
African Literature and Histories of Indigenous Medicine – Annual Meeting | African Studies Association – Nov 2015
Paul Farmer and Fiction: Two Approaches to Ethics – Annual Mtg | Am Soc for Bioe Humanities – Oct 2015
Ebola, Outbreak Narratives, and the Deliverance of Others – Mellon Biennial Conference | Columbia Univ – Apr 2015
Jomo Kenyatta and the Literature of Public Health – Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa | MIT – Nov 2014
Global Health Ethics: a Literary Contribution – Annual Mtg | Am Society for Bioethics and Humanities – Oct 2014
Situating the Literary and Medical in Facing Mount Kenya – Medical Humanities in Africa | Univ of Cape Town – Aug 2014
Kenya and Literatures of Tropical Medicine – Annual Mtg | Am Comparative Literature Association – March 2014
Fiction and Refusal: Melville and Conscientious Objection – Am Society for Bioethics and Humanities – Oct 2013
Literary Form in Tropical Medicine – Mellon Biennial Zuckerman Conference | Columbia University – Apr 2013
Reports from the Field (mod) – Medicine, the Humanities and the Human Sciences | Columbia University – Apr 2013
On Narrative Deliberation in Selzer’s Mercy Stories – Annual Mtg | Am Society for Bioethics and Humanities – Oct 2012
Paterson’s Pamphlet and the Writing of Malaria – Annual Mtg | Northeast Modern Languages Association – Mar 2009
Reports, Reviews & Interviews
submission for Humanities Futures working group. Global Health and Comparative Literature: Perspectives from HIV in South Africa,John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Nov 2015.
excerpted interview. Defining Medical Humanities, for Stanford Humanities Center: Home of the Human Experience, Spr 2014.
with Snow RW, J Omumbo and J Ouma. The Epidemiology, Politics and Control of Malaria Epidemics in Kenya: 1900-1998, Report for the World Health Organization, July 1999.
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