Dr. Chinelo Animalu is an infectious disease specialist in Memphis, TN and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals, Baptist Memorial Hospital – Memphis, and Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She received her medical degree from University of Nigeria Faculty of Medicine and has been in practice 19 years. She is double board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the field of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases/ HIV Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA). She holds a Master of Public Health degree from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. She’s vastly published in major academic journals nationally and internationally. Her areas of expertise include travel and tropical medicine, nosocomial infections, antibiotic stewardship, and transplant infectious disease.