Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG

Credentials

Clinical Practice

I am a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist at Atlanta Perinatal Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, where I manage high-risk pregnancies: fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, preeclampsia, diabetes in pregnancy, fetal anomalies, and complex maternal conditions. My clinical practice is grounded in ACOG and SMFM guidelines, the same evidence base I operationalize directly into the tools I build.

I am also a physician-developer. I write Python and TypeScript, build AI tools for clinical documentation and decision support, and maintain open-source platforms for MFM education. The clinical work and the technical work are not separate pursuits. One informs the other.

Why This Site Exists

Physicians carry something no outside builder can easily replicate: lived clinical context. We understand the ambiguity of real patients, the cost of bad workflow, the difference between something that looks useful in a demo and something that actually helps at the bedside. As artificial intelligence reshapes documentation, decision support, billing, and patient education, most physicians are being positioned as end users of tools they had no hand in designing.

I think that is a mistake.

Doctors should not be passive consumers of medical technology.
They should be builders of it.

Doctors Who Code exists to document that frontier. It is part journal, part workshop, and part argument: for physicians, developers, and curious clinicians who want to think seriously about how medicine and software should meet.

What I Build

Who This Is For

This site is for physicians curious about AI and coding, developers who want to build in healthcare with deeper clinical insight, and clinicians who believe healthcare technology should be shaped by the people closest to patient care. You do not need to be an engineer. You need curiosity and a willingness to think beyond the default settings of medicine.

Topics I write about include physician-led innovation, large language models in clinical practice, medical documentation automation, maternal-fetal medicine education, and workflow design for practicing clinicians.

Beyond the Clinic

I am a Seventh-day Adventist elder at Atlanta North Seventh-day Adventist Church, a theologian writing at Chukwuma Theology on Substack, and an endurance athlete managing metabolic performance through the Mastering Diabetes whole-food plant-based protocol. I track glycemic response and training load using CGM and Garmin wearables, a framework I call PGIS (Performance Glycemic Intelligence System). The same systems thinking I apply to an SMFM consultation, I apply to a long training run.

I have deep roots in Igbo cultural heritage (Ngwa/Onyeije lineage, Agbaragwu South) and am writing a devotional manuscript titled Equanimity Under Duress. These are not separate from the clinical and technical work. They are the same habits of mind applied to different problems.

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