- Residency - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016-2018), Family Medicine
- Internship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015-2016), Family Medicine
- Fellowship - UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018-2019), Community Medicine
- Medical School - Ross University School of Medicine, Barbados (2011-2015)
- Other Post Graduate Training - University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (2018-2019)

Victoria Udezi, M.D., M.P.H.
- Family Medicine
Biography
Victoria Udezi, M.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Udezi earned her medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in family medicine with a distinction in global health and community action research and a fellowship in community medicine, both at UT Southwestern. She also holds a master’s degree in public health with a global health concentration from UT Health Science Center at Houston.
Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019.
Dr. Udezi is committed to addressing health disparities and improving the physical and mental health status of the local and global community. She pursues this through quality health care, collaboration, research, and advocacy. Her clinical and research interests include public health, global health, and behavioral health and trauma.
She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Texas Academy of Family Physicians. In 2018, she earned the Research Scholar Award from UT Southwestern’s Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Education & Training
Books & Publications
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Publications
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A community-based participatory approach to evaluating and adapting an innovative family-based hypertension self-management intervention for African American primary care patients.
Woods, S. B., Roberson, P. N. E., Pryor, J. B., Obregon, S. D., Nesbitt, S., Udezi, V Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2025 -
Are committee experiences of minoritized family medicine faculty part of the minority tax? a qualitative study.
Campbell KM, Ogbeide SA, Echiverri A, Guillaume G, Henderson JE, Jackson N, Marquez CM, Miranda C, Montoya M, Oni K, Pierre G, Semenya AM, Scott L, Udezi V, Flattes VJ, Rodríguez JE, Washington JC, BMC medical education 2023 Nov 23 1 862 -
"A cuff is not enough": A community-based participatory research approach to soliciting perspectives of African Americans with hypertension and their family members on self-management intervention features.
Woods SB, Udezi V, Roberson PNE, Arnold EM, Nesbitt S, Hiefner A, Family process 2023 Sep -
Improving knowledge and readiness to manage human trafficking at a community-clinic: A trauma informed intervention.
Udezi, V., Stanteen, S. M The Annals of Family Medicine 2023 21(Supplement 3), 5150. -
Investigating Physician Training, Knowledge, and Response to Human Trafficking at an Academic Medical Center in Texas,
Victoria Udezi, Prachi Singh, Lauren Malthaner, Katelyn Jetelina. Journal of Human Trafficking. 2023 -
Address Structural Racism First!
Udezi V, Anim T, Rodríguez JE, Family medicine 2022 09 54 8 659-660 -
Depressed mood and environmental mastery as potential pathways linking family relationship quality and disease self-management for African Americans with hypertension.
Woods SB, Hiefner A, Roberson PNE, Zahra N, Arnold EM, Udezi V, Family process 2022 May e12789 -
'They should walk with you': the perspectives of African Americans living with hypertension and their family members on disease self-management.
Woods SB, Hiefner AR, Udezi V, Slaughter G, Moore R, Arnold EM, Ethnicity & health 2022 Feb 1-26 -
Training Family Medicine Residents to Prevent and Respond to In-flight Emergencies.
Udezi V, Day P, Gimpel N, Medical science educator 2021 Aug 31 4 1263-1265 -
Improving Readiness to Manage Intimate Partner Violence in Family Medicine Clinics by Collaboration With a Community Organization.
Martin-Engel L, Allen J, Alencar A, Levin S, Udezi VO, Pagels P, Eary RL, PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.) 2021 5 20 -
Treatment for Factor V Leiden; Stuck between a rock and a hard place. (A case Report & Review of Literature)
Waqas Jehangir, Souad Enakuaa, Victoria Udezi et al. Journal of Hematology 2014
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A community-based participatory approach to evaluating and adapting an innovative family-based hypertension self-management intervention for African American primary care patients.