A magna cum laude graduate of Wesleyan College in Macon GA, she received her medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at the Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Onwuemene then went on to the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, where she completed her hematology/oncology sub-specialty training and obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Investigation. Dr. Onwuemene joined the Duke University faculty in 2013 to pursue clinical and research interests in hemostasis/thrombosis and therapeutic apheresis. Dr. Onwuemene’s primary research interests are in the interface of therapeutic apheresis and coagulation. She is particularly interested in applications of therapeutic plasma exchange in heparin induced thrombocytopenia and solid organ transplant microvascular thrombosis.