Beze A. Adogu, MD, PhD, FACP was educated at University of Jos, Nigeria and Cambridge University, England. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Kidney Diseases and Hypertension.

At medical school, he won the state scholarship award for a GPA consistently above 3.5, followed by the national merit award for "academic excellence", Nigeria's highest honor for scholastic excellence. After graduating with the highest scores in Medicine & Surgery at medical school, he completed a one-year rotatory internship in Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, before residency training in Internal Medicine. Again, he obtained the highest international scores in his Internal Medicine specialty examinations, before embarking on full-time basic medical research.

He was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar (the Cambridge University equivalent of a "Rhodes"), and in 1987, was named Her Majesty's Scholar in Medicine at Downing College, Cambridge. His PhD research was on the mechanisms of diabetes mellitus. He is well-published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, and has authored a comprehensive manual of kidney diseases, "Pocket Nephrology". Since coming to the United States, Dr. Adogu has also received further training at Brown University (Roger Williams Hospital, Providence), Medical College of Georgia (MCG Hospitals & Clinics, Augusta), York Hospital, closing with a stint at the Massachussetts General Hospital's Transplant Unit with Professor Benedict Cosimi. In recognition of his contributions to the study of kidney disease, he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians, only the second MD to be honored from Athens, since 1953.