Anezi Uzendu, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in interventional cardiology and cardiac arrest care.

Dr. Uzendu earned his medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. He gained advanced training through fellowships in cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University Medical Center and interventional cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Corrigan Minehan Heart Center. He also completed a research fellowship in cardiovascular outcomes at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology, he joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023.

A member of the of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, Dr. Uzendu has partnered with the AHA on multiple projects to advocate for heart health and awareness. He has also given several oral presentations and media interviews and has published in the area of out of hospital cardiac arrest.

In 2022, Dr. Uzendu earned the Young Investigator Award for the Resuscitation Science Symposium.