About Nneka Ufere, MD
Nneka N. Ufere, MD MSCE, is a Transplant Hepatologist in the Division of Gastroenterology within the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
She completed an A.B. in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a minor in Psychology at Harvard College in 2008. She completed her medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in 2012 where she was a recipient of the Glasgow-Rubin Citation for Academic Achievement and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also served as a Chief Medical Resident during the 2016-2017 academic year. She completed her Gastroenterology fellowship in 2020 and Transplant Hepatology fellowship in 2021 at Massachusetts General Hospital. She obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology degree at the at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in 2021.
She is a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program and the Mongan Institute, and her research interests center around palliative and supportive care and informed decision-making with the goal of developing interventions aimed at improving the quality of life and care for patients with advanced liver disease and their caregivers. Her work is currently supported by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Clinical, Translational and Outcomes Research Award, the Massachusetts General Hospital Physician Scientist Development Award, and a GI Innovation and Collaboration Award from the Mass General GI Division. She is a past recipient of the NIH Loan Repayment Award, the American College of Gastroenterology Clinical Research Pilot Award and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatology
- Liver transplantation
- Palliative care
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Gastroenterology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-5925
Medical Education
- MD, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital*****
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*****
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital*****
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Transplant Hepatology, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
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- 87468a80-cd65-4bef-8f86-08d1a720a19d
- Aetna Health Inc.
- Beech Street
- bf32d307-ee91-41c8-afd3-c4ffb53c7983
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Blue Care 65
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Managed Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Partners Plus
- BMC HealthNet Mass Health MCO/ACO
- Cigna (PAL #'s)
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Community HealthCare
- Great-West Healthcare (formally One Health Plan)
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - ACD
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan - PBO
- Health Care Value Management (HCVM)
- Humana/Choice Care PPO
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - ACD
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan - PBO
- MassHealth
- Medicare
- Medicare - ACD
- Medicare ACO - ACD
- Medicare ACO - PBO
- OSW - Connecticut
- OSW - Rhode Island
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Unicare
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - ACD
- United Healthcare (non-HMO) - PBO
- Well Sense Pediatrics
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Publications
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ufere%2C+nneka&sort=date
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