New Life Community Health Center Announces New Medical Director
By John Peck | November 28, 2015
The New Life Community Health Center (NLCHC), is very pleased to announce Dr. Amber Featherstone-Uwague as its Medical Director. Featherstone-Uwague officially assumed her duties on Jan. 1, 2015 and was presented in a public event during a clinic open house in June.
Dr.Featherstone-Uwague becomes the Director as NLCHC nears final stages of preparation for becoming a fully-certified primary care center through the New York State Department of Health in 2016, and in expanding its hours of operation and level of care.
Featherstone-Uwague received her MD and Master’s in Public Health at Columbia University. She has also worked in community health centers in New York City including several roles with projects for the NYC Department of Health, and also in Dallas, Texas and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Community health experiences helped enable her to be the founding director of the Doctors of the World Rockaways Free Clinic established in the Far Rockaways area of Queens, NY, hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in October-November 2012.
Featherstone-Uwague is the daughter of a Baptist minister, and missions has had a central place in her Christian life. She has been involved with Mennonite, African Pentecostal, and non-denominational churches here in New York City. Her sense of long-term calling to worldwide missions service, exposure to major world religions, her medical involvement in places such as Macau, Niger and Ecuador while in medical training, and public health experiences with HIV patients in Uganda, will help her develop the clinic’s abilities in reaching other cultures locally through medical care.
Featherstone-Uwague also takes on an additional role as she becomes the Director – she is a new mother. She and her husband, Ted Uwague of New York City, became parents of a new boy for the first time earlier this year.