Placid Eze, M.D., Pharm.D

Dr. Eze was born in a rural village in Nigeria and luckily survived the Nigerian civil war called Biafra. After the war I immigrated to America with my Mom and sister to be with my father who was a professor at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. I was enrolled into the local elementary school and learned English with the help of Sesame Street. I then went to middle school, finishing just when the whole family returned back to Nigeria and returned alone to America to finish high school at Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods , Mississippi, before going to Alcorn State University on a scholarship, where I pledged in the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and graduated with honors with a double major in Biology and Chemistry. I did a brief stint as a Ph.D candidate at Florida A& M in Tallahassee, Florida, before deciding to go to Mercer University School of Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, where I graduated with a Pharm. D and worked for over 10 years as a retail, independent, community and hospital pharmacist before going to Morehouse School of Medicine with a residency in Family Medicine upon graduation. While in residency I was commissioned as a medical officer in the United States Army Reserve and served 9 years including 2 tours of duty during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before resigning my commission (honorably) in order to devote more time to my practice. I have worked in the hospital and in private practice since residency and currently practice family medicine in Starkville and Columbus, Mississippi.