Arinzechukwu Izuchukwu Uzoechina, MBBS

A native of Lancaster, Alex decided to put her education and energy back into her hometown and the surrounding communities. She graduated from Buford High School in 2011 and then went on to fulfill her dreams as a nurse at the University of South Carolina - Lancaster. In 2015, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing. She completed her precepting hours in the Intensive Care Unit at MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center. This is when she knew that she had found her home. She was an ICU nurse in that unit for the next five and a half years while she returned to graduate school to become a Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with her Master's in Nursing from the University of South Carolina in December 2018. GO COCKS! Since then, she has completed many hours of preceptorship with surrounding physicians. Her love for her hometown drives her initiative to care for the people who reside here, and she hopes to do so until she retires. In her spare time, she likes to spend time with her family. Her husband is a firefighter, so with our busy schedules, we want to spend time with our little girl. She is very excited and blessed to be able to serve this community!

I grew up watching my father care for children and decided at age 12 to follow in his footsteps and become a pediatrician. \n Though we both take pride in treating children, he had a one-man practice for 40 years. That is something you rarely see these days. In contrast, my patients can rely not only on my expertise but also on the abundant resources of a major not-for-profit healthcare system. I have great concern and affection for children, and I am grateful that they are so resilient in times of sickness. \n I have cared for patients at Novant Health for more than 20 years and was honored as one the top 2% of doctors two years in a row. I am a lead physician at Novant Health. \n My approach to medicine is to form a team - the patient, the parent(s) and myself - that decides together on the outcome of each interaction or visit. I try to involve my young patients in decision-making as much as their age allows. I try to hear families' concerns without interrupting, and I make it a point to remember important aspects of their lives, such as sports or travel, so they know I see them as people, not just patients. \n I work hard to keep my knowledge up to date and to stay on top of trends such as telemedicine. Most of all, I love coming to work to encounter beautiful children every day. \n My husband and I have a teenager and a Weimaraner. I enjoy doing hot yoga with my daughter, working in the yard with my husband and walking the dog. Our family enjoys traveling, skiing and spending time at the beach.