Dr. Charles Okorie is the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Saharco Foundation as well as the Treasurer of Saharco Old Boys Association, (SOBA) USA. Over the past 25 years in America, he has served in leadership positions in the academic world and also founded two US based corporations – the experience garnered from these activities have been invaluable in managing the finances of the Foundation and SOBA USA.
Dr. Charles Okorie is on the faculty of the world- renowned George Washington University School of Medicine, in Washington DC, USA, as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine. Dr. Okorie has been a certified diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine since September 1992.
Dr. Charles Okorie was the Founder and Medical Director of two acute care centers in Virginia, USA: Fair Lakes Urgent Care Center, in Fairfax, and VA Gateway Urgent Care Center, in Gainesville, before they were subsequently acquired in December 2014 by a publicly traded company.
He graduated from Sacred Heart College, Aba, in 1980 at the age of fifteen, and immediately got accepted into the medical school, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. In 1988, he left Nigeria for the US to pursue post-graduate medical education. Dr. Okorie completed Internal Medicine residency in 1992, at Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C., where his stellar performance earned him a position as a Chief Resident of Internal Medicine. He subsequently trained at the world-renowned Critical Care Training Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he did one year of clinical fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, under the leadership of Professor Ake Grenvik, one of the founding fathers of Critical Care Medicine in America.
Following this training, Dr. Okorie practiced Critical Care Medicine at Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD (1991-1999) and also at the Cardiothoracic ICU, Washington Hospital, Washington PA (1993-1995) before developing urgent care centers in US.
Dr. Okorie is one of a handful of physicians in the US, designated Senior Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) trained and authorized by the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), to perform medical examinations for pilots and air traffic controllers.
He is very passionate about his high school alma mater, Sacred Heart College, Aba, Nigeria; a school he believes ingrained in him early in life the tools of self-reliance and survival in difficult situations. He thus remains committed in helping the next generation of students in this school achieve more in life than the generations before them.