Infectious Diseases

Nwora Lance Okeke, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
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 - Chapel Hill, 2015
  • M.D., Stanford University, School of Medicine, 2007

Grants

Publications

Okeke, Nwora Lance, Tony McLaurin, Ruth Gilliam-Phillips, David H. Wagner, Valerie J. Barnwell, Yolanda M. Johnson, Osaffo James, et al. “Awareness and acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among students at two historically Black universities (HBCU): a cross-sectional survey.” Bmc Public Health 21, no. 1 (May 19, 2021): 943. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10996-2.

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Mourad, Ahmad, Nicholas A. Turner, Arthur W. Baker, Nwora Lance Okeke, Shanti Narayanasamy, Robert Rolfe, John J. Engemann, Gary M. Cox, and Jason E. Stout. “Social Disadvantage, Politics, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Trends: A County-level Analysis of United States Data.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): e604–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1374.

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Axfors, Cathrine, Andreas M. Schmitt, Perrine Janiaud, Janneke Van’t Hooft, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Ehab F. Abdo, Benjamin S. Abella, et al. “Author Correction: Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.” Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (May 14, 2021): 3001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23559-1.

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Axfors, Cathrine, Andreas M. Schmitt, Perrine Janiaud, Janneke Van’t Hooft, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Ehab F. Abdo, Benjamin S. Abella, et al. “Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (April 15, 2021): 2349. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22446-z.

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Clement, Meredith Edwards, Mira Nicchitta, Ying Sun, Alicia Ellis, Hrishikesh Chakraborty, Kara McGee, Cedar Eagle, et al. “Preexposure Prophylaxis Outcomes in an Urban Community in North Carolina: Discontinuation of Care and Sexually Transmitted Infections.” Sex Transm Dis 48, no. 3 (March 1, 2021): 183–88. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001288.

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Seidelman, Jessica, Molly Fleece, Allison Bloom, Emily Lydon, Wesley Yang, Christopher Arnold, David J. Weber, and Nwora Lance Okeke. “Endogenous Candida endophthalmitis: Who is really at risk?” J Infect 82, no. 2 (February 2021): 276–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2020.12.032.

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Mkumba, Laura, Charles Muiruri, Keva Garg, Melissa H. Watt, and Nwora Lance Okeke. “Perspectives of Chronic Disease Management Among Persons with HIV: A Qualitative Study.” Patient Prefer Adherence 15 (2021): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S287325.

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Webel, Allison R., Julie Schexnayder, C Robin Rentrope, Hayden B. Bosworth, Corrilynn O. Hileman, Nwora Lance Okeke, Rajesh Vedanthan, and Chris T. Longenecker. “The influence of healthcare financing on cardiovascular disease prevention in people living with HIV.” Bmc Public Health 20, no. 1 (November 23, 2020): 1768. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09896-8.

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Okeke, Nwora Lance, Katherine R. Schafer, Eric G. Meissner, Jan Ostermann, Ansal D. Shah, Brian Ostasiewski, Evan Phelps, et al. “Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management in Persons With HIV: Does Clinician Specialty Matter?” Open Forum Infect Dis 7, no. 9 (September 2020): ofaa361. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa361.

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Manavalan, Preeti, Deng B. Madut, Julian T. Hertz, Nathan M. Thielman, Nwora Lance Okeke, Blandina T. Mmbaga, and Melissa H. Watt. “Hypertension burden and challenges across the hypertension treatment cascade among adults enrolled in HIV care in northern Tanzania.” J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 22, no. 8 (August 2020): 1518–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/jch.13929.

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