Dr. Ebele Chira
Dr. Ebele Chira is board certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He grew up in Nigeria, where he attended medical school at the University of Lagos. After working for 2 years in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1994 to train in Internal Medicine, obtaining his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1998. He moved from the UK to Savannah, Georgia, in 2001 to do a residency in Internal Medicine at the Memorial University Medical Center, which he completed in 2004. He then did a 3-year Endocrinology fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle, which he completed in 2007. During his Endocrine fellowship, he did bench research that focused on the interactions between glucose, inflammatory markers and lipids in the development of atherosclerosis.
Dr. Chira was in private practice for 4 years in Hickory North Carolina before moving to Paris, TX in September 2011, where he was employed at the PRMC Healthcare Group until April 2024. He has a 100% specialty practice focused on diabetes, general endocrinology (such as thyroid disease, parathyroid diseases, bone disorders, adrenal disorders and pituitary disorders) and lipid disorders.