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Charles Odamtten Easmon

Ghanaian surgeon specialist (1913-1994) · Ghana · On the map · Doctors · Died at 80

Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School.

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Awards

Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences1971
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

About this person

In 1964, Easmon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Ghana and modern scholars credit him as the "Father of Cardiac Surgery in West Africa". Easmon was of Sierra Leone Creole, Ga-Dangme, African-American, Danish, and Irish ancestry and a member of the distinguished Easmon family, a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent.

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Country
Ghana
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1913 to 1994 · aged 80