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Christle nwora, md, MHS

Dr. Christle Nwora (she/her) was born in Dallas, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. During this time, she found community in the Multicultural Engagement Center (MEC) and dedicated her time towards advocating for marginalized communities on campus. She held senior leadership roles within the campus student government and the MEC which led to working alongside the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the University of Texas vs Fisher II Supreme Court Case. Dr. Nwora continued her advocacy for marginalized communities and interest in student affairs into medical school. She completed her medical degree at the University of Texas at Houston where she served as the National Chair for the Organization of Student Representatives in Association of American Medical Colleges and created programs centering voices of unrepresented students in medicine.

 Dr. Nwora also nurtured her interested in primary care and completed her dual training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins Urban Health program, designed to prepare residents to be physical leaders and advocated within vulnerable urban communities. During her residency, she authored a children’s book (“The Hospital”) designed to demystify the hospital and celebrate all who work in healthcare. She developed a special interest in caring for young people with Sickle Cell Disease and has had additional clinical and research experience in this area. 

Dr. Nwora is excited to stay at Johns Hopkins to continue her training as an Adolescent Medicine Fellow. She will continue her research in the care of young people with Sickle Cell Disease and wants a career in medical education focused on student affairs, diversity and equity. She serves as a producer for the Cribsiders (a pediatric medicine podcast) and the treasurer for Black Girl White Coat (mentorship organization for Black and Hispanic women).

Priya Shankar, MD, MPH

Dr. Shankar is a physician with a passion for gender justice, intersectional feminism, reproductive and mental health, and health equity. She is a graduate of the UCSF Pediatric Leaders for the Underserved Residency Program and also is the co-founder (alongside her late husband, Ricky Sharma) of the award-winning organization called Adolescent Health Champions which fights gender bias by training youth globally as gender and health peer educators. She was a former Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India from 2009 to 2010 and a Fogarty-NIH fellow from 2020 to 2022 where she focused on global adolescent health. She later served as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland's Federally Qualified Health Center in teen, school-based health, and primary care and was a faculty member with the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.

 Dr. Shankar is delighted to join JHU Adolescent medicine fellowship to delve deeper into adolescent clinical care, policy, and research. She will  continue to expand and evaluate Adolescent Health Champions in honor of her late husband and to support adolescents globally. Additionally, while in fellowship, she plans to undertake research related to partner loss, gender related stigma and discrimination, and post-traumatic growth, resilience, and thriving. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her family and daughter, to dance every day, and she is currently receiving training in art therapy.