{"id":3995,"date":"2016-12-05T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2016\/12\/05\/leadership-award-for-adventist-health-educator\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:34:06","slug":"leadership-award-for-adventist-health-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/leadership-award-for-adventist-health-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Award for Adventist Health Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 December 2016 | London [Richard Daly \/ tedNEWS]  Dr Chidi Ngwaba, an Adventist doctor who specialises in the prevention and reversal of lifestyle diseases was presented with an honorary Leadership Award at a ceremony in London on Friday, 25 November 2016. Leaders in business, charity, education, NGOs, and health were among those honoured at a special gala at the exclusive May Fair Hotel, London.<\/p>\n

\"Chidi<\/a>Dr Ngwaba currently serves as Health Ministries director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the south of England. Trained in surgery, General Practice & Lifestyle Medicine at Cambridge, UCL & Johns Hopkins University, USA, he aims to reverse, improve or prevent many chronic illnesses including heart disease, cancer, arthritis and diabetes. He has featured as a health expert on programmes such as ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain, been a past speaker on TEDx talks at King’s College London, and is well known to viewers of Hope Channel and Revelation TV.<\/p>\n

While Ngwaba\u2019s primary work is in the UK he is also a sought after international speaker, having presented seminars in ten European countries stretching from Serbia to Portugal. In the USA he has spoken at Weimar Lifestyle Institute and Loma Linda, Andrews, and La Sierra universities. He was given the reward in recognition on his inspirational work in preventing and reversing lifestyle diseases throughout Europe and the UK.<\/p>\n

\"Chidi<\/a>“It was truly a blessing and honour to receive such an award in leadership,\u201d Ngwaba says. \u201cIt was clear that many of the guests and judges were keen to know more about what I do and how I do it. We thank the good Lord that He has blessed us with such wonderful gifts of health, healing, and hope.”<\/p>\n

Dr Chidi believes that our health is a wonderful gift that we have the ability to choose every day. That is why he is passionate about getting to the root causes of our chronic diseases by using the wealth of knowledge in lifestyle medicine, to transform illness into wellness.<\/p>\n

Other recipients included the Managing Director of the John Lewis retail partnership, a Channel 4 TV marketing and communication officer, and the longest serving nurse in the UK.  [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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