Christiana Ekezie awarded clinical fellowship from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Christiana Ekezie, MD

Christiana Ekezie, MBBS, a third-year pediatrics resident who is graduating this month, was awarded a First/Second Year Clinical Fellowship from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The project begins July 1, 2023, and provides a total of $131,500 in funding over two years. The First/Second Year Clinical Fellowship program is designed to support and encourage clinical fellows in CF-relevant subspecialties and aims to provide exposure to CF research and patient care. As an awardee, Ekezie will be working with the CF Center at Children’s Wisconsin to access the Feeding Infants Right from the STart (FIRST) CF database. Her research project will be created during her first year of fellowship. Ekezie will begin a Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin this summer.