Imikomobong (Micky) Ibia, MD

Dr. Ibia is a Nigerian-born, American-raised, emergency medicine trained physician who specializes in the care of adult and pediatric patients in the emergency department. After completing his training in general emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham, he began his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital, while serving as a moonlighting attending at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In all of these capacities, he provides clinical care, supervises trainees, conducts research, and strives to innovate to improve the care of pediatric patients in all emergency department settings.

Dr. Ibia's clinical interests and expertise revolve around pediatric emergency medicine infrastructure development in Southeastern Nigeria/Haiti and building tools to assist the general emergency medicine provider in caring for pediatric patients. Since his childhood, Dr. Ibia and his father (a pediatric infectious disease physician) have strived to build upon the marginal pediatric medical systems of their homeland. To this end, after his father's passing, Dr. Ibia created a non-profit organization in his father's honor called the Ekopimo Ibia Foundation, which focuses on promoting the provision of basic health services to the children of Southeastern Nigeria. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $50,000 and provided the HPV vaccine to more than 300 young women in Calabar, Nigeria. Further, since the beginning of residency, Dr. Ibia has created tools to improve the care of pediatric patients in emergency department settings. These include being a significant contributor to an AHA-sponsored Pediatric Advanced Life Support smartphone app, co-creating a digital repository of Mass General Brigham Emergency Medicine protocols for life-threatening pediatric illnesses called Emergency Medicine Protocols, and becoming the web developer/content editor for Emergency Department SmartPhrases that can be accessed at https://medphrases.com.

Dr. Ibia has been actively involved in the on-shift teaching and supervision of medical students and residents since his senior years of residency, and this contribution has only increased since beginning fellowship and taking on moonlighting attending roles. He also regularly lectures the HAEMR residents on electronic medical record documentation optimization and pediatric specific topics with a general emergency medicine lens. Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Ibia has an inherent passion and commitment to sponsor ethnical underrepresented in medicine learners (especially Black men) to pursue careers in science and medicine. This is rooted in his belief that he would not be where he is today if he wasn’t blessed with similar mentorship during his early years. To this end, since his undergraduate years, he has served in multiple capacities including as a recess volunteer, afterschool mentor, tutor, teacher, invited speaker, and mentor. Many of Dr. Ibia's mentees have gone on to medical school and residency. He has also been privileged enough to be the co-founder of the residency diversity recruitment initiative that strives to create an environment where everyone can thrive, including the creation of the HAEMR Roots Bio-Book, a packet of brief biographies that highlight why many of the Black, Latinx, Women, LGBTQI+, and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents chose HAEMR for residency training. This initiative has been well-received throughout the Mass General Brigham system, resulting in a publication in the Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians’ EM Advocate Newsletter in March 2019.

Since completing his training in general emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham, Dr. Ibia has endeavored to provide excellent clinical care, careful administrative oversight, adaptable teaching, and tender mentorship, while striving to innovate to improve the care of pediatric patients in all emergency department settings. He is humbled and honored to have a career that allows him to combine these deeply ingrained passions.