Women To Watch Awards 2026 honors Augusta Uwah

Augusta Uwah, MD, MPH is a physician, founder, and healthcare AI strategist advancing a more ethical, efficient, and human-centered future for care delivery. She is the founder of ClinEfficiency, a physician-led company that helps healthcare organizations adopt practical artificial intelligence to strengthen operations, improve patient communication, and reduce administrative burden for clinicians.

With training in both medicine and public health, Dr. Uwah brings a rare combination of clinical insight and systems-level thinking to healthcare innovation. Her work is grounded in the realities of frontline care while focused on the broader structures that shape patient outcomes, workforce sustainability, and organizational performance.

Dr. Uwah is especially committed to ensuring that innovation in healthcare is not driven by hype, but by responsibility, usability, and real-world impact. Through her leadership, she is helping define what physician-led innovation can look like when it is guided by integrity, strategic clarity, and service.

Recognized as part of a rising generation of women transforming healthcare, Dr. Uwah is building solutions at the intersection of medicine, technology, and leadership—while creating a powerful example of what purposeful, forward-thinking leadership looks like today.