Emeka Buffong serves as a chaplain at Kettering Health Troy and Kettering Health Behavioral Medical Center. Splitting time between Georgia and the Caribbean, Emeka enlisted in the United States Army, where he served a four-year term.
After leaving active duty, he completed his bachelor’s degree in Theology, with an emphasis in Pre-Chaplaincy/Counseling at Oakwood University before going on to complete his master’s degree at Andrew’s University. He completed his internship at Grady Hospital in Atlanta—the same hospital where he was born.
His wife, Suzette, is a physician, and together they made the choice to move from Brooklyn, New York to work and serve at Kettering Health, where Dr. Millington-Buffong works as a primary care provider. Like so many of our staff, Emeka’s considers his greatest accomplishment the impact he gets to make day-to-day for our patients and co-workers.
“My greatest accomplishment so far was visiting a night shift and a staff member telling me that she felt seen, because so often she feels invisible, those words gave me the desire to try my best to see those around me.”
Emeka also sees his work at Kettering Health as a chance to follow Jesus’ example of humble service to those around us. “I am reminded of Jesus’s example in the upper room where he took the towel and washed His disciples’ feet and He set the precedent for what greatness looks like in His kingdom—being a servant. I am here to serve all of God’s children. That is my calling, duty, and responsibility.”