Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG

This is the official About page for Chukwuma Onyeije, MD, FACOG. I am a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Atlanta, Georgia, a physician-developer, and the founder of Doctors Who Code. I practice high-risk obstetrics at Atlanta Perinatal Associates, build physician-led AI and clinical software through CodeCraftMD, and publish open MFM education through OpenMFM.org.

If you searched for Chukwuma Onyeije, Chukwuma Onyeije MD, or Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, you are in the right place. This page is the central profile for my clinical work, writing, software projects, and public identity.

Credentials

Clinical Practice

I am board-certified in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and care for high-risk pregnancies in Atlanta, Georgia. My work includes fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, diabetes in pregnancy, fetal anomalies, and complex maternal conditions. I practice at Atlanta Perinatal Associates, where clinical judgment has to survive contact with real uncertainty, real workflow friction, and real time pressure.

That clinical reality shapes how I think about technology. I do not approach software as a spectator. I approach it as a physician responsible for patients, documentation, decisions, and consequences. The evidence base matters. The workflow matters. The bedside matters.

I am also a physician-developer. I write Python and TypeScript, build AI tools for clinical documentation and decision support, and work on systems that try to close the gap between what medicine knows and what medicine can actually use in practice.

Why I Built Doctors Who Code

Doctors Who Code exists because I think the framing is wrong. Physicians should not be passive consumers of medical technology. We should help build it.

Too much healthcare software is designed far from the point of care, then handed back to clinicians as workflow. That produces tools that look efficient in a demo and fail inside a real clinic. The problem is not that physicians resist innovation. The problem is that medicine keeps outsourcing technical authorship to people who do not carry clinical responsibility.

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

I built Doctors Who Code as a place to document a different path. This site is part journal, part workshop, and part argument. I write here for physicians who want to understand software, for developers who want deeper clinical context, and for anyone who thinks medical AI should be built with intellectual seriousness instead of hype.

What I Build

CodeCraftMD is my work in physician-led AI for clinical documentation and billing. OpenMFM.org is my open-source platform for maternal-fetal medicine education and clinical tools. Doctors Who Code is the written record that connects the two.

Start Here on Doctors Who Code

If you want a quick sense of how I think and what I build, start with three representative pieces: my argument for physician-developers in the age of AI, the FGRManager build teardown, and the FHIR playbook for physicians who want to work with real clinical data.

Beyond the Clinic

My work is not only clinical and technical, but it is all driven by the same habits of mind. I am a Seventh-day Adventist elder, a theologian writing at Chukwuma Theology on Substack, and an endurance athlete interested in metabolic performance, training load, and measurement. I also care deeply about Igbo heritage, systems thinking, and disciplined intellectual work.

I do not see those as separate identities. They are different expressions of the same concern: clarity, responsibility, endurance, and truth under pressure.

Connect

If you want the best single reference page for Dr. Chukwuma Onyeije, this is it. If you want to follow my writing, start with Doctors Who Code. If you want to track my builder work, see CodeCraftMD and OpenMFM.org. For speaking, collaboration, or professional context, connect with me on LinkedIn or through the site newsletter.