ODOCHA, Harold

Surgeon, Author, Poet · b. March 16, 1955

Doctor Okay Harold Odocha is a Howard University trained surgeon with advanced training in liver, kidney, pancreas, and small bowel transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, under Dr. Thomas E. Starzl. With over twenty-five years of experience in abdominal, breast, transplantation, cancer and vascular access surgery, Dr. Odocha has with compassion and dedication, cared for numerous patients afflicted with chronic constipation, cancer, diabetes, hernias, debilitating ulcerating wounds, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, disorders of the thyroid gland, gall bladder, kidney, pancreas and other disorders following major and minor trauma. Doctor Okay Harold Odocha is board certified in general surgery, and was previously an associate professor of surgery. Chief of Liver Transplantation at Howard University in Washington, D.C. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) since 1997, Dr. Odocha was awarded a Diploma in Minimal Access Surgery (D. MAS) by the World Association of Laparoscopy Surgeons in 2010.