Visiting Scholars and Scientists

Okechukwu Ogah

Lown Scholar

Global Health and Population

osogah56156@gmail.com


Overview

Dr Ogah is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the Department of Medicine , University of Ibadan and Consultant Physician/Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa, and an MSc in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) both from the University of Ibadan. He is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians, Nigerian Cardiac Society, European Cardiac Society and American College of Cardiology.
He is a Bernard Lown visiting scholar at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and the current President of the Nigerian Cardiac Society.
His research interests include surveys on cardiovascular risk factors, national heart disease registries, continental heart failure registries, pericarditis, rheumatic heart disease, pulmonary hypertension and systemic hypertension. He has over 120 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is married with children.

Fellowship in Cardiology, 04/2002, Cardiology
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Fellowship in Cardiology, 04/2003, Cardiology
King's College Hospital, London United Kingdom

Certtificate in Epidemiology and Global Health, 08/2009, Epidemiology and Global Health
University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

MBBS, 09/1995, Medicine and Surgery
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

MSc, 09/2004, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

FWACP, 10/2004, Internal Medicine/ Cardiology
West African Postgraduate Medical College, Lagos, Nigeria

PhD, 12/2016, Internal Medicine
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa


Bibliography

Artificial intelligence guided screening for cardiomyopathies in an obstetric population: a pragmatic randomized clinical trial.

Adedinsewo DA, Morales-Lara AC, Afolabi BB, Kushimo OA, Mbakwem AC, Ibiyemi KF, Ogunmodede JA, Raji HO, Ringim SH, Habib AA, Hamza SM, Ogah OS, Obajimi G, Saanu OO, Jagun OE, Inofomoh FO, Adeolu T, Karaye KM, Gaya SA, Alfa I, Yohanna C, Venkatachalam KL, Dugan J, Yao X, Sledge HJ, Johnson PW, Wieczorek MA, Attia ZI, Phillips SD, Yamani MH, Tobah YB, Rose CH, Sharpe EE, Lopez-Jimenez F, Friedman PA, Noseworthy PA, Carter RE.

Nat Med. 2024 Sep 02. PMID: 39223284

Variation in Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: The INTERASPIRE Study.

McEvoy JW, Jennings C, Kotseva K, De Bacquer D, De Backer G, Erlund I, Vihervaara T, Lip GYH, Ray K, Rydén L, Abreu A, Almahmeed W, Meidian Ambari A, Ge J, Hasan-Ali H, Huo Y, Jankowski P, Jimenez RM, Li Y, Zuhdi ASM, Makubi A, Mbakwem AC, Mbau L, Navarro Estrada JL, Ogah OS, Ogola EN, Quintero-Baiz A, Sani MU, Sosa Liprandi MI, Tan JWC, Urina Triana MA, Yeo TJ, Ganly S, Adamska A, Wood D.

Eur Heart J. 2024 Aug 30. PMID: 39212219

Mortality and Morbidity in Adults With Rheumatic Heart Disease.

Karthikeyan G, Ntsekhe M, Islam S, Rangarajan S, Avezum A, Benz A, Cabral TTJ, Changsheng M, Chillo P, Gonzalez-Hermosillo JA, Gitura B, Damasceno A, Dans AML, Davletov K, Elghamrawy A, ElSayed A, Fana GT, Gondwe L, Haileamlak A, Kayani AM, Lwabi P, Maklady F, Molefe-Baikai OJ, Musuku J, Ogah OS, Paniagua M, Rusingiza E, Sharma SK, Zuhlke L, Connolly S, Yusuf S.

JAMA. 2024 07 09. 332(2):133-140. PMID: 38837131

Stroke occurrence by hypertension treatment status in Ghana and Nigeria: A case-control study.

Sarfo FS, Asowata OJ, Akpa OM, Akinyemi J, Wahab K, Singh A, Akpalu A, Opare-Addo PA, Okekunle AP, Ogbole G, Fakunle A, Adebayo O, Obiako R, Akisanya C, Komolafe M, Olunuga T, Chukwuonye II, Osaigbovo G, Olowoyo P, Adebayo PB, Jenkins C, Bello A, Laryea R, Ibinaye P, Olalusi O, Adeniyi S, Arulogun O, Ogah O, Adeoye A, Samuel D, Calys-Tagoe B, Tiwari H, Obiageli O, Mensah Y, Appiah L, Akinyemi R, Ovbiagele B, Owolabi M.

J Neurol Sci. 2024 Apr 15. 459:122968. PMID: 38518449

Tobacco use and risk of acute stroke in 32 countries in the INTERSTROKE study: a case-control study.

Wang X, Liu X, O'Donnell MJ, McQueen M, Sniderman A, Pare G, Hankey GJ, Rangarajan S, Chin SL, Rao-Melacini P, Ferguson J, Xavier D, Zhang H, Liu L, Pais P, Lopez-Jaramillo P, Damasceno A, Langhorne P, Rosengren A, Dans AL, Elsayed A, Avezum A, Mondo C, Judge C, Diener HC, Ryglewicz D, Czlonkowska A, Pogosova N, Weimar C, Iqbal R, Diaz R, Yusoff K, Yusufali A, Oguz A, Penaherrera E, Lanas F, Ogah OS, Ogunniyi A, Iversen HK, Malaga G, Rumboldt Z, Oveisgharan S, Al Hussain F, Nilanont Y, Yusuf S.

EClinicalMedicine. 2024 Apr. 70:102515. PMID: 38516107