Infectious Diseases

Nwora Lance Okeke, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Campus mail Dept of Medicine, Box 31255, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 684-8111
Email address lance.okeke@duke.edu
In Their Words

Education and Training

  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2011 - 2015
  • Internal Medicine Resdency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2007 - 2010
  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
  • M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, 2007

Grants

Publications

Aifah, Angela, Nwora Lance Okeke, Cynthia R. Rentrope, Julie Schexnayder, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Hayden Bosworth, Kiran Grover, et al. “Use of a human-centered design approach to adapt a nurse-led cardiovascular disease prevention intervention in HIV clinics.” Prog Cardiovasc Dis, February 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2020.02.013.

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Perfect, Chelsea, Lindsay Wilson, David Wohl, Nwora Lance Okeke, Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn, and Sue Tolleson-Rinehart. “Improving Care for Older Adults with HIV: Identifying Provider Preferences and Priorities.” J Am Geriatr Soc, December 17, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16296.

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Okeke, Nwora Lance, Allison R. Webel, Hayden B. Bosworth, Angela Aifah, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Emily W. Choi, Sarah Gonzales, et al. “Rationale and design of a nurse-led intervention to extend the HIV treatment cascade for cardiovascular disease prevention trial (EXTRA-CVD).” Am Heart J 216 (October 2019): 91–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2019.07.005.

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Alenezi, Fawaz, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Nwora Lance Okeke, Poonam Velagapudi, Loai Abudaqa, Nkechinyere Ijioma, Allison Dunning, et al. “Global Longitudinal Strain and Immune Status in Patients Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.” Am J Cardiol 124, no. 6 (September 15, 2019): 966–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.06.013.

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McGee, Kara S., Nwora Lance Okeke, Christopher B. Hurt, and Mehri S. McKellar. “Canary in the Coal Mine? Transmitted Mutations Conferring Resistance to All Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors in a Treatment-Naive Patient.” Open Forum Infect Dis 5, no. 11 (November 2018): ofy294. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy294.

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Okeke, Nwora Lance, Fawaz Alenezi, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Allison Dunning, Meredith E. Clement, Svati H. Shah, Susanna Naggie, and Eric J. Velazquez. “Determinants of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Diastolic Dysfunction in an HIV Clinical Cohort.” J Card Fail 24, no. 8 (August 2018): 496–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2018.06.003.

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Clement, Meredith E., Jessica Seidelman, Jiewei Wu, Kareem Alexis, Kara McGee, N Lance Okeke, Gregory Samsa, and Mehri McKellar. “An educational initiative in response to identified PrEP prescribing needs among PCPs in the Southern U.S.” Aids Care 30, no. 5 (May 2018): 650–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2017.1384534.

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Okeke, Nwora Lance, Damian M. Craig, Michael J. Muehlbauer, Olga Ilkayeva, Meredith E. Clement, Susanna Naggie, and Svati H. Shah. “Metabolites predict cardiovascular disease events in persons living with HIV: a pilot case-control study.” Metabolomics 14, no. 3 (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-018-1318-z.

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Clement, Meredith E., Nwora L. Okeke, Terry Munn, Miguel Hunter, Kareem Alexis, Amy Corneli, Arlene C. Seña, Kara McGee, and Mehri S. McKellar. “Partnerships Between a University-Affiliated Clinic and Community-Based Organizations to Reach Black Men Who Have Sex With Men for PrEP Care.” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) 77, no. 2 (February 2018): e25–27. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000001577.

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Clement, Meredith E., Li Lin, Ann Marie Navar, Nwora Lance Okeke, Susanna Naggie, and Pamela S. Douglas. “Lower likelihood of cardiac procedures after acute coronary syndrome in patients with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.” Medicine (Baltimore) 97, no. 6 (February 2018): e9849. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000009849.

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29419696
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