Dr. Lambert Tetteh Appiah

General Secretary

He is a practicing Senior Specialist Physician, a cardiologist and a researcher with interest in global cardiovascular health including prevention, epidemiology, clinical trials, implementation science, improving health systems and training. He works across the spectrum of cardiovascular diseases in research on CVD risk factors, Stroke ,Heart failure, HIV-related cardiac co-morbidities.

He also works as a senior lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST-SMD), Department of Medicine. He completed his Fogarty Global Health Fellowship with the University of North Carolina, working on emerging CVD risk among both HIV and non-HIV patients in Ghana.

He is a Fellow of both the West African College of Physicians and the Ghana College of Physicians, also a Fellow of the International Society of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention(ISCEP) and a member of the International Society of Global Health (ISoGH).He has a Post graduate certificate in Clinical research from the Harvard Medical School.