Samuel Kwakye Ayeh, MD., MPH.

• A Medical Doctor with over 10 years of clinical work experience and currently an Internal Medicine Resident Physician at Medstar Health with a special Interest in Infectious Diseases.
• My Career path also spans 2 years of Pre-Clinical Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine(Karakousis TB Research Lab) with a focus on Tuberculosis and the Novel Corona Virus(SARS-CoV-2).
• A graduate from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health with a Major in Epidemiology & Biostatistical Methods for Public Health & Clinical Research and a Certificate In Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
• A Collaborative team player, skilled at working with clinical and non-clinical professionals to promote comprehensive patient care

Certificate In Pharmacoepidemiology And Drug Safety - 2019
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School Of Public Health - Baltimore, MD

Medical Practice License(Ghana)-2012 till date

Medical and Dental Council, Ghana

Identifying several Immune-Modulator Drugs That Target Lipid Formation in Foam Cells.

• Identify immune based drugs that could be used as an adjunctive therapy in Tuberculosis treatment to shorten the duration of TB treatment.

Therapeutic DNA Vaccine Targeting A Mycobacterium Stringent Response Pathway Protein Called REL Protein.

• Generate a therapeutic Vaccine that will serve as an adjunct to the current treatment for Tuberculosis to shorten the Duration of treatment.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts

1. James T. Gordy · Kun Luo · Aakanksha Kapoor · Emily S. Kim · Samuel K. Ayeh · Petros C. Karakousis · Richard B. Markham. Treatment with an immature dendritic cell-targeting vaccine supplemented with Interferon-gamma and an inhibitor of DNA methylation markedly enhances survival in a murine melanoma model. Springer link. 2020, Jan; 2020(69): 569-580. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 31980915. Pub Status: Published.

2. Enoch J Abbey, Banda A. A Khalifa, Modupe O. Oduwole, Samuel K. Ayeh, Richard D. Nudotor, Emmanuella L. Salia, Oluwatobi Lasisi, Seth Bennett, Hasiya E. Yusuf, Allison L. Agwu, Petros C. Karakousis. ( October 7, 2020 ). The Global Health Security Index is not predictive of coronavirus pandemic responses among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239398, Pub Status: Published.

3. Vignesh Chidambaram, Nyan Lynn Tun, Waqas Haque, Marie Gilbert Majella, Ranjith Kumar Sivakumar, Amudha Kumar, Angela Ting-Wei Hsu, Izza Ishak, Aqsha Nur, Samuel K. Ayeh, Emmanuella Salia, Ahsan Zil-E-Ali, Muhammad Saeed, Ayu Sarena, Bhavna Seth, Muzzammil A. ( November 18, 2020 ). Factors Associated with Disease Severity and Mortality among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241541, Pub Status: Published.

4. Richard Nudotor, Hasiya Yusuf, Owulatobi Lasisi, Emmanuella Salia, Banda Khalifa, Enoch Abbey, Modupe Oduwole, Samuel K Ayeh, Obeng Appiafo, Joseph Canner, Ann Scheimann & Kimberley E. Steele. A Retrospective Analysis of the Impact of Bariatric Surgery on the Management of Chronic Migraine. Obesity Surgery( 11 February 2021 ). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-020-05204-w, Pub Status: Published.

5. Nathan P Crilly, Samuel K Ayeh, Petros C Karakousis The new frontier of host-directed therapies for Mycobacterium avium complex . Front Immunol. ( 2021 Jan 22 ). doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.623119 Pub Status: Published

6. Zhou, L., Ayeh, S.K., Chidambaram, V. et al. Modes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and evidence for preventive behavioral interventions. BMC Infect Dis 21, 496 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06222-4

7. Ayeh SK, Abbey EJ, Khalifa BAA, Nudotor RD, Osei AD, Chidambaram V, et al. (2021) Statins use and COVID-19 outcomes in hospitalized patients. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256899

8. Vignesh Chidambaram, Nyan Lynn Tun, Marie Gilbert Majella, Jennie Ruelas Castillo, Samuel K Ayeh, Amudha Kumar, Pranita Neupane, Ranjith Kumar Sivakumar, Ei Phyo Win, Enoch J Abbey, Siqing Wang, Alyssa Zimmerman, Jaime Blanck, Akshay Gupte, Jann-Yuan Wang, Petros C Karakousis, Male Sex Is Associated With Worse Microbiological and Clinical Outcomes Following Tuberculosis Treatment: A Retrospective Cohort Study, a Systematic Review of the Literature, and Meta-analysis, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 73, Issue 9, 1 November 2021, Pages 1580–1588, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab527

9. Chidambaram V, Zhou L, Ruelas Castillo J, et al. Higher Serum Cholesterol Levels Are Associated With Reduced Systemic Inflammation and Mortality During Tuberculosis Treatment Independent of Body Mass Index. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:696517. Published 2021 Jun 22. doi:10.3389/fcvm.2021.696517

10. An intranasal stringent response vaccine targeting dendritic cells as a novel adjunctive therapy against tuberculosis

Styliani Karanika, James T. Gordy, Pranita Neupane, Theodoros Karantanos, Jennie Ruelas Castillo, Darla Quijada, Kaitlyn Comstock, Avinaash Kaur Sandhu, Yinan Hui, Samuel K. Ayeh, Rokeya Tasneen, Stefanie Krug, Carina Danchik, Tianyin Wang, Courtney Schill, Rirchard B. Markham, Petros C. Karakousis

bioRxiv 2022.04.19.488816; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.19.488816

• Best worker (Physicians and Physician Assistants Category) at the St. Gregory Catholic Hospital. Ghana- 01/2016 - 12/2016
• Scholar at The Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness- 2018 till date
• Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) Scholarship- An award by the Government of Ghana given to selected students who show exceptional ability and promise in their professional practice-July 2019 - May 2019
• A full term(One-time) Merit-Based Scholarship from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health- 2018-2019 Academic year

Head of Ebola Emergency Response Team in my Facility during Ebola Outbreak-2015

• Emergency Clinical Team in charge of Ebola Case management in the event of an outbreak at St Gregory Catholic Hospital, Ghana

Head of Zero Maternal mortality Team and Maternal Mortality Audit Team at St Gregory Catholic Hospital, Buduburam, Ghana

01/2015-12/2017

• The team's role is to review every case of maternal death to address issues underlying each maternal death at the hospital,

Head of Project Five -Alive Team at St Gregory Catholic Hospital,Ghana.

01/2016-12/2016

• To Review every under -five death and come up with intervention to address underlying causes.

Johns Hopkins Hospital (J.H.H). Baltimore, Maryland.

October, 2019

• Shadowed Prof. Petros C. Karakousis, an Infectious Diseases Attending at The J.H.H for two(2) weeks

University Of Colorado Children's Hospital. Denver, CO
04/2018 - 05/2018

• Shadowed Dr. Adam Green, a pediatric oncologist
• Participated in daily ward rounds on the Oncology floor.

Denver Health Hospital. Denver, CO
04/2018 - 05/2018

• Shadowed Dr Sarah Hoffman, an internal medicine attending,
• Participated in daily ward round at Denver health.
  

Denver Health (Pena Clinic)-Family Health Practice. Denver, CO
03/2018 - 04/2018

• Shadowed Dr. Mike Russum, a family practice physician and the Clinical Director of Denver Health Pena Clinic
• Assisted patients requiring laboratory and radiological tests

Emergency Department, Kingman Regional Medical Center. Kingman, AZ
02/2018 - 02/2018

• Assisted with all emergency procedures
• Involved in taking detailed histories and examining patients
• Discussed patients' clinical findings and course of management with the resident and attending on duty

Addressing Hypertension Control in Africa (ADINCHRA) study-2019

My collaboration with clinical investigators at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing on the Addressing Hypertension Control in Africa (ADINCHRA) study, has led to production of medical education videos to be used in training health professionals in Ghana and Africa on hypertension management.

Orientation

05/21/ 2018

• Volunteer Activity involving Denver Health and Wish for wheels
  where we assembled about 100 bicycles and gave these new bicycles
  to the less-privileged children in Denver community,Colorado.

05/2018

• Together with the social worker for Denver Health(Pena Clinic), Sophia Chavez, we visited a Spanish Community and helped with food stuff distribution.

06/24/2019

• As a facilitator for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health International Students day, I led a small of group of students through a round-table discussion on how to maximize their MPH experience and took them on a school-wide tour.

• American Public Health Association-2019 till date
• Ghana Medical Association-2012 till date

English

Introductory French

Twi (Akan)

Anita Tamara

Medical Director of Medstar Franklin Square Primary Care Clinic 

Email: Anita.Tammara@medstar.net

Phone:240-481-8087

Chardon-Borrero Madai

Medstar Primary Care Clinic Attending

Email: madai.chardon-borrero@medstar.net

Phone: 443-691-0501

• Https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/center-for-drug-safety-and-effectiveness/training/
• (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNyhoG__ciU)