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About Dr Avotri : Training: I am a Pediatrician, born and raised in Ghana, and trained in Medicine at the University of Ghana Medical School. After graduation I came to the US for Residency and Fellowship training. During the Residency and Fellowship training I lived in Waterbury (Connecticut), Lansing (Michigan) and Albany (New York). I am presently practicing Pediatrics in a Community Health Center in Gadsden, Alabama. Before relocating to Alabama I ran a solo private pediatric practice in Dayton, Ohio for many years. While working at my current job I enrolled in the executive management program of Tulane University and graduated in 2003 with a Masters in Medical Management (MMM) degree. The contents of the MMM training are very useful in the administrative jobs I did or still do in our clinic or in the hospitals. I have always had an interest in writing and even won a regional essay contest in my senior year in high school. However Medicine has always been my first choice among careers, and caused me to put my writing ambitions on hold until recently. I have not had any formal training as a writer. I educated myself informally by reading Writers’ Digest books about writing, and reading widely. My style or pattern of writing is quite different from what I read from writers’ books. I prefer to do my writing in bed early in the mornings. Instead of writing a segment everyday I wake up early (3-6 a.m) several mornings and “daydream” about the next chapter or segment to write. After several days of such daydreaming the chapter seems to crystallize in my mind and I am able to write it in one or two sessions, quite fast and without having to think much. Work and Leadership: Like everyone else, my general disposition, patterns of behavior, interpersonal relations and management style are influenced by my childhood background, and genetic predisposition. My culture was (maybe still is) rural, fairly strict in discipline and religion, but paradoxically quite permissive with personal opinion and behavior. Humility, respect for others (especially older people) and gentleness were the admired behavior patterns and I still hold those views. I decided to become a doctor early in grade school for no particular reason that I can recall. The decision to do Pediatrics was more deliberate and rational. I am playful by nature and children seemed to like me. My professor of Pediatrics in medical school liked me and gave “jobs” in the department during breaks school sessions. It was therefore not difficult to choose Pediatrics. My first formal experience as a leader was during my last two years in medical school. I was the leader of a team of twelve students assigned to study patterns of intestinal worm infestation in a specific geographic area. The field and laboratory procedures were straightforward, but when we got to analysis, discussion and write up I was shocked at the diversity of opinion in that small group of people I thought I knew for at least four years. That taught me to become more open-minded than ever before. In solo private practice of pediatrics in Dayton, Ohio, I had no choice but be the leader, and I think I did a fairly good job of it. My personal view is that people are the most valuable and important “things” in our lives, and we should treat one another as such. Our coworkers and our patients deserve our love and compassion, almost (if not quite) like family. Our patients deserve our dedication and willingness to serve.
Core Value 2.Medical care for children should make it possible for each child to grow and develop to his/her full potential. Core purpose: To deliver high quality pediatric care with compassion and love. Audacious goal: To have our clinic become identified as the preferred clinic for pediatric care in our service area. For me there
was no sudden urge or call to leadership. I certainly felt a calling
to do medicine when I was quite young and in the early years of elementary
school. I have no explanation for that urge because there was no immediate
preceding event or even a roll model to identify. My choice of Pediatrics
is easier to explain by my ease with children and the pleasure that I
had during my Pediatrics rotations in medical school.
Nella P. Avotri. I was born and raised in Ghana, and trained as a stenographer/secretary at a Government Secretarial School. Before coming to the U. S, I worked in administrative positions at a Regional Government Office in Ghana, and an Engineering Consulting Company in Nigeria. After a short stay in Maryland I got married and moved to join my husband in Dayton Ohio where I studied for a Diploma in Information Systems and a degree in Business Administration at Miami-Jacobs College. We started a family shortly after marriage and I have devoted myself to bringing up the kids. However, I found some time to work part time helping with billing for my husband’s practice. I have been a full time stay-at-home mother since we moved to Gadsden, Alabama. In writing our novel “Child Of Polygamy”, I found good use of typing and editing training. Purchase Child of Polygamy via the web at any of these
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