Where care became a calling.
Afoma started in science: a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria, then four years as an assistant research biochemist at Noma Hospital, working with patient lab tests, clinical records, and the equipment that kept the research running.
The same years took her into rural communities with a volunteer health organisation, caring for people affected by Noma disease. The lesson never left her: behind every sample and every record is a person.
Frontline first. Then the data behind it.
As a med service assistant at a specialist hospital in Abuja, Afoma worked the frontline: resolving patient issues, guiding people through stressful moments, and learning how much calm communication changes an outcome.
Then she crossed to the other side of the desk: a two-year data science internship back at Noma Hospital, doing hands-on hospital data work under senior data scientists. Care on the floor, evidence behind it.
A digital turn, certified by the best.
Healthcare was going digital, so Afoma went with it. She retrained deliberately, course by course, for the work healthcare teams actually need now: telehealth, health informatics, data, and the psychology of the people in the system.
| Yale University | Introduction to Psychology | 2026 |
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| Stanford University | Introduction to Healthcare | 2026 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Health informatics, four certificates | 2026 |
| Duke University | Telehealth Clinical Essentials | 2026 |
| IBM | Certified Data Science | 2023 |
Also: Foundations of Cybersecurity (Coursera), Project Management and Customer Service Foundations (LinkedIn, 2022), and that B.Sc. in Biochemistry where it all started.
The future of healthcare is not only about technology. It is about making people feel seen, heard, and supported.
Afoma Nwana Kelechi In her own words, from her public writing on patient experience and mental health.
AI healthcare operations, run with heart.
Today Afoma works remotely from Abuja with healthcare teams anywhere in the world. She is open to roles across healthcare operations, telehealth, patient experience, and AI evaluation, and to speaking invitations on the human side of digital care.
Operations & administration.
Records, scheduling, documentation, and the coordination that keeps a healthcare organisation running. Health informatics trained, HIPAA aware.
Telehealth & patient experience.
Virtual care support built around the patient: clear communication, smooth workflows, care coordination across remote teams.
AI evaluation & informatics.
Reviewing AI output for quality and safety, and using AI to speed up healthcare work, always with a human check on top.
Speaking & advocacy.
Conferences, podcasts, and panels on mental health at work, AI in healthcare, and patient experience. Virtual or in person.
She also runs LeadConnect Pro, a small studio for pitch decks, company profiles, and business documents, and writes the Capital Growth Insider newsletter.