A chat with an African Diaspora Paediatric Cardiac Intensivist. What will your legacy be?

Dr. Ndidi Musa is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, a Pediatric Cardiac intensivist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a Fellow of the American college of critical care medicine. She is Christian is married with 3 Adult children.
Dr. Musa has worked extensively in training residents, Fellows, and Nurse practitioners in the care of the critically ill child both in the US, and resource limited countries including Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Botswana, Rwanda, Kenya, Guyana and Palestine.
She started her global health journey by getting involved in missions and Church planting in West Africa in 2005. She transitioned from medical missions to building capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve the care of critically ill children; this provided the opportunity to impact more children than previous. She started teaching Continuing Medical Education to Physicians in Ghana through the auspices of African Partners Medical and Ghanaian Foundation in the Americas. Then the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons joined the partnership and moved the venue to their offices in Accra. She received an award from the College in 2014 for her work with them. She mentored two residents from Ghana who have now trained as Pediatric Intensivists and have established a program in Ghana.

*According to Siaw Frimpong et al study on the Capacity of Intensive Care Units in Ghana published in the Journal of Critical Care February 2021, GHANA HAD ONLY TWO PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVISTS FOR A POPULATION OF OVER 30 MILLION – 0.5 ICU bed per 100,000.

For more information on Dr. Nidi Musa’s work, email [email protected]
Music: Ghana Land of Freedom by Jamin Beats

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