Dr. Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, MD, MPH was most recently a Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Chicago Medicine. She was previously a Chief Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Chicago, and Chief Medical Resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Anyane-Yeboa is focused on public health advocacy, with the goals of advocating in the public sector, leading diversity retention and recruitment efforts, and designing health disparities research, to create policy and develop initiatives to eliminate disparities in minority patients with gastrointestinal disorders. She has a special interest in achieving equity in health outcomes for minority patients with gastrointestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease. Her community service initiatives have included work with the Urban Health Project (Chicago) and Closing the Health Gap of Greater Cincinnati. As a resident, she developed mentoring programs for underrepresented minority students, and led diversity retention and recruitment efforts for her department. She received the Rising Star Award in 2018 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Anyane-Yeboa received her medical degree in 2012 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2015. Adjoa is the principal investigator on the pilot study focused on preparing for the updated USPSTF colorectal cancer screening guidelines.
