Okechukwu Ogah

Biography

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.

Education and Training

• Fellowship in Cardiology, Cardiology
  University of Leipzig
• Fellowship in Cardiology, Cardiology
  King's College Hospital
• Certtificate in Epidemiology and Global Health, Epidemiology and Global Health
  University of Dundee
• MBBS, Medicine and Surgery
  University of Ibadan
• MSc, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics
  University of Ibadan
• FWACP, Internal Medicine/ Cardiology
  West African Postgraduate Medical College
• PhD, Internal Medicine
  University of the Witwatersrand

Publications

• THE IBADAN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE REGISTRY: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE INITIAL 1290 PARTICIPANTS.

  Ogah OS, Adedokun TA, Ojji DB, Opeyemi O, Abiodun AA, Ringim SH, Hamza SM, Anakwue R, Mba P, Ukpeh IE, Uba-Mgbemena O, Fasan OO, Emmanuel ET, Shehu MN, Garba S, Olunuga T, Adebayo SO, James MC, Mark OE, Daniel FA, Raheem A, Iheonye HO, Ugoeze NI, Mankwe CA, Ogunyemi SA, Akinyele OA, Enerho F, Umuerri EM, Shogade TT, Udosen AU, Edafe EA, Nwafor CE, Usman MA, Karaye KM, Adebiyi A. West Afr J Med 2024 Nov 10

• THE NIGERIAN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION NATIONAL REGISTRY: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND EARLY FINDINGS.

  Ogah OS, Adedokun TA, Ojji DB, Opeyemi O, Abiodun AA, Ringim SH, Hamza SM, Anakwue R, Mba P, Ukpeh IE, Uba-Mgbemena O, Fasan OO, Emmanuel ET, Shehu MN, Garba S, Olunuga T, Adebayo SO, James MC, Mark OE, Daniel FA, Raheem A, Iheonye HO, Ugoeze NI, Mankwe CA, Ogunyemi SA, Akinyele OA, Enerho F, Umuerri EM, Shogade TT, Udosen AU, Edafe EA, Nwafor CE, Usman MA, Karaye KM, Adebiyi A. West Afr J Med 2024 Nov 10

• A collaborative effort across Africa to investigate risk factors and outcomes of premature acute coronary syndrome: Protocol for the EAS Lipid Registry of Africa (LIPRA).

  Reda A, Lyons ARM, Zambon A, Bendary A, Al-Khnifsawi M, Gamra H, Marais D, Ogah OS, Seleshi T, Suliman AAA, Mwita JC, Damasceno A, Dzudie A, Elbahry A, Farag E, Fekadu C, Mbau L, Mujahed M, Minja RP, Samia B, Sani M, Appiah LT, Tselepis A. Atheroscler Plus 2024

• 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 KK, Rydén L, Abreu A, Almahmeed W, Ambari AM, Ge J, Hasan-Ali H, Huo Y, Jankowski P, Jimenez RM, Li Y, Mahmood Zuhdi AS, 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 Oct 14

• Low-Dose Triple-Pill vs Standard-Care Protocols for Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

  Ojji DB, Salam A, Sani MU, Ogah OS, Schutte AE, Huffman MD, Pant R, Ghosh A, Dhurjati R, Lakshmi JK, Ripiye NR, Orji IA, Kana SA, Abdussalam T, Olawumi AL, Alfa IM, Orimolade OA, Ajayi MO, Rodgers A. JAMA 2024 Oct 01