Dr. Job Mogire
MD, FACP, FACC · Board-Certified Cardiologist
I am a practicing cardiologist. I read echocardiograms and coronary artery calcium scores on Tuesday and I write on Wednesday. This platform is the conversation I have in clinic, expanded for the page, with the same honesty about evidence and the same refusal to soften a finding to make it easier to hear.
Credentials
- MD
- Board-Certified, Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- Board-Certified, Cardiovascular Disease (ABIM)
- Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP)
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC)
NPI 1831684125 · Practicing at Carle Foundation Hospital, Champaign, Illinois · Faculty, University of Illinois Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Training
Moi University College of Health Sciences
Medical training. Eight years of practice in Kenya followed.
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Master’s in Global Health, with Distinction.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Internal Medicine residency.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Cardiovascular Disease fellowship.
Why I do this
I was born in Sengera village, in Kisii County, Kenya. As a child I was called ekerentane, an unwanted one. I was adopted, and renamed, and the label did not hold. I learned early that the names we are given are not the same as the truth of who we are. That is not a metaphor I reach for. It is the first thing I knew.
I practiced medicine in Kenya for eight years before I came to the United States. By the time I started residency in Kansas, I was not a beginner. I was a physician who had already practiced where resources were thin and the stakes were not. That is not background color. It is the training that taught me to read a patient before the tests come back, because sometimes the tests did not come.
In September 2024, I walked past an offer worth eight hundred thousand dollars and chose a lower salary with full clinical autonomy. Not because money does not matter. Because I had watched the Performance Paradox up close, in my patients and in myself, and I understood what I was actually building. This platform is part of it.
I see the same man every week. Different name, different city, different title. He is excellent at his life and quietly not attending to himself. He is technically fine. He is the reason this exists.