Meet Our Team
Our Medical Staff
Our medical staff from left to right:
Maryanne Obiesika, Community Health Worker; Mary Asoegwu, Nursing Assistant ; Chibuzor Nnaocha , M.D.; Winnifred Nworie, RN; Glory Jibrin, RN.
Dr. Veronica Obodo-Eckblad
My vision was to provide a clinic in Ibiasoegbe village where the entire family has access to healthcare. Where children are followed to make sure they are meeting growth and developmental milestones and receiving the appropriate scheduled and necessary vaccinations. Where adults receive medical treatment and preventive health education to manage chronic and infectious diseases. I am eternally grateful to my family both nuclear and extended, colleagues, friends, members of Davis Friends Meeting, people of Ibiasoegbe village and all the generous donors and supporters who worked to make this vision a reality. Let’s keep marching on.
Dr. Reginald Agukwendu
Dr. Reginald Chinna Agukwendu is a Physician with a Bachelor’s of Medicine, Bachelor’s of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) School of Medicine in 2015. He’s a member of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. He is a Member of the Medical Research And Humanitarian Society (MEDRHUS) Nigeria. He’s been practicing as a medical doctor for 6 years with extensive experience in Emergency Medicine.
He is currently a medical officer at Saudi Arabia and an active board member of Ibi People’s Clinic and has been largely involved in the recruitment of Physicians and other health professionals for the clinic.
Dr. Daisey Dowell
Dr Dowell is a physician who serves at Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago, Illinois, where she has the honor of serving a marginalized patient population as a pediatrician. She serves as Clinical Director to a culturally diverse staff at Lawndale’s Homan Square Clinic site. Dr. Dowell has been a member of the Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) board for 5 years and serves on CCHF's Diversity Committee and as the CCHF board chair from 2020 to 2021.
In addition to serving in domestic missions LCHC, Dr. Dowell serves as a foreign missionary to Haiti and Africa. She also serves as one of the founding board members for The Field School of Chicago, a multicultural classical Christian school located in the heart of the primarily African-American, economically disadvantaged community of Austin, where she has resided for over 30 years.
Dr. James (Jim) Eusebio, MD
Dr. Eusebio is a retired Pediatrician, who has lived in Davis, CA. for 44 years where he attended the Medical School at the University of California, Davis. After his Pediatric Residency at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA, he practiced General Pediatrics in Davis. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He traveled to Ibiasoegbe village on the first medical mission in 2011, and is now a member of the Ibi People’s Clinic Board.
Dr. Gail del Carmen Guerrero-Tucker MD, MPH, FAAFP
Dr. Guerrero-Tucker is affiliated with Gila Valley Clinic in Safford, as well as Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford. Dr. Guerrero was born in Nogales, Arizona and grew up in Tucson where her parents owned a small business. Dr. Guerrero-Tucker graduated from University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2002. Gail spent 20 years working in the banking industry before attending medical school in 1998. She hopes to continue delivering babies and seeing patients in the hospital until she retires. Her clinic is also a site for training medical students and residents. Dr. Guerrero feels preventive healthcare is as important as treating diseases and welcomes a collaborative model of personal health. She has always been interested in people and public health issues, leading her to pursue her Masters of Public Health (MPH).
She also enjoys global health issues and has been on several medical missions to Nigeria and Honduras. She hopes to expand her horizons by traveling to other parts of the world as well. One of her other passions is health equity. She enjoyed helping the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians (AzAFP) plan its first ever Health Equity Conference in 2019. Attendees learned the importance of political asylum medical exams and the impact those can have on the patients.
Gail served as the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians (AzAFP) President from 2019-2020. She currently serves on the AzAFP Diversity Task Force and Legislative Task Force.
Dr. Guerrero is married with three grown children and five grandchildren with whom she loves spending any free time!
Ike Obodo
I am a mechanical engineer by profession and although I am not in the medical field, I know the importance of providing access to medical care to our rural Nigerian village. We have countless stories of people losing family members due to lack of access, delay in treatment or inadequate treatment by an unsupervised nurse. I have been instrumental in coordinating the logistics of the medical missions from providing lodging to hiring workers, enlisting volunteers and coordinating the construction of the clinic. I am invested in seeing this project succeed and will continue to do all that I can to make that happen.