Chief Medical Director
Dr. Ima Chinedozi, MD, MPH, MHS
Dr. Ima Chinedozi is a cardiac anesthesiologist, critical care intensivist and global health researcher, and a co-founder of AthleticsMD, where she is Chief Medical Director. She is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
She is also a decorated rugby player and an award-winning competitor with the National Physique Committee (NPC), a two-time state champion in 2022 in Women’s Physique and Figure. That life is where AthleticsMD began: the practice was first built to prevent sudden death among bodybuilders, and it kept growing from there.
At AthleticsMD she runs the academic and clinical side of the practice’s global work: perioperative and critical care training, the oxygen-access research programme, and the evidence that work is judged on.
She directs the Johns Hopkins Global Alliance of Perioperative Professionals (JHU-GAPP) and leads the StAAR-funded assessment of increased oxygen access at Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul, The Gambia. In 2026 she presented the G4 Alliance’s WHO-supported multinational surgical registry at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference. Foundation courses under her direction have trained more than 200 providers in Liberia and The Gambia since 2022.
- Cardiac anesthesiology
- Critical care
- Global health research
- Rugby
- NPC bodybuilding
