Here’s how Chinelo Animalu, M.D., describes her role as an infectious disease physician:
“We deal with those cases that make everybody else run in the opposite direction,” she said.
An associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the College of Medicine at UT Health Science Center, Animalu is also the medical director for Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis. Her primary clinical practice is at Methodist University Hospital…