Adam Gyedu

Surgery

About

Adam Gyedu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, School of Medical Sciences (SMS), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. I have worked for KNUST for the past 12 years. I am also a General Surgeon, and currently head of the Surgery unit, University Hospital, KNUST.He teaches surgery to students of the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Additionally, he trains House Officers and Physician Assistants for their certification with the Ghana Medical and Dental Council and also trains surgery residents of both the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and the West African College of Surgeons.He is a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, West Africa College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. He also holds memberships with the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons that champions the development and implementation of minimally invasive surgical techniques to improve patient outcomes; and the International Surgical Society, considered one of the most distinguished and prestigious international surgical societies in the world with the goal of working for international teaching of both general and specialized surgery. He is a member of the Ghana Hernia Society that trains district hospitals doctors in the use of mesh for modern hernia surgery and the Vice President of the Ghana Surgical Research Society, which aims to improve surgical services and research in Ghana. He is the president of Green Baobab LBG, a non-profit that provides medical and surgical services to the poor and underserved in Ghana and he also volunteer for ApriDec Medical Outreach Group, which offers free medical/surgical services to deprived communities of the northern parts of Ghana.His research interests include Injury, Health Systems Strengthening, Cancer and Global Surgery. He is PI of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 grant on the use of a Trauma Intake Form to improve assessment and care of the injured in non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana. He is also co-Investigator and a management team member of an NIH D43 grant for improving research capacity to reduce the burden and consequences of injuries in Ghana and West Africa. Additionally, he is country PI of a Department of Defence W81XWH2110364 grant for an Effectiveness-Implementation study of enteral resuscitation for moderate-sized burns. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and have made many oral scientific presentations at various conferences and workshops in Ghana and abroad.He is an Associate Editor for the World Journal of Surgery, having served on the Editorial Board for over 4 years. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Ghana Medical Journal. He also review for many other journals including International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, PLOS ONE, BMJ Open Gastroenterology, African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Case Reports in Surgery, Surgical Infections Journal, Journal of Surgical Research, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, and African Health Sciences.

Research Summary

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The field of global healthcare encompasses a wide range of research and issues, from foundational work on Hepatitis B virus studies in African countries to advancements in surgical techniques like telemedicine. These studies reflect a global push toward improving health outcomes and safety. The lack of universal standards for surgical outcomes highlights the need for standardized benchmarks and improved care infrastructure in low-middle-income nations. Emerging technologies such as telemedicine and laparoscopy show promise in expanding surgical accessibility, while global health reforms are addressing challenges like road safety and educational interventions on the healthcare workforce. Each theme contributes to a comprehensive approach to global health, emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and policy improvements.

Research Themes

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A Consensus-Based Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies (CROSS)(2021)

Generating Consensus on Road Safety Issues and Priorities in Ghana: A Modified Delphi Approach(2023)

Characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in Africa: a multicountry observational study from the Africa Liver Cancer Consortium(2016)

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Occurs at an Earlier Age in Africans, Particularly in Association With Chronic Hepatitis B(2015)

Surgical Treatment of Peripheral Aneurysms in Patients with Behcet’s Disease(2011)

Mapping Population-Level Spatial Access to Essential Surgical Care in Ghana Using Availability of Bellwether Procedures(2016)

Improving Benchmarks for Global Surgery: Nationwide Enumeration of Operations Performed in Ghana(2017)

The Correlation Between Poverty and Access to Essential Surgical Care in Ghana: A Geospatial Analysis(2016)

Barriers to Essential Surgical Care in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Pilot Study of a Comprehensive Assessment Tool in Ghana(2015)

Benchmarking Global Trauma Care: Defining the Unmet Need for Trauma Surgery in Ghana(2019)

The state of surgery, obstetrics, trauma, and anaesthesia care in Ghana: a narrative review(2022)

Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis(2022)

Barriers to essential surgical care experienced by women in the two northernmost regions of Ghana: a cross-sectional survey(2016)

Orthopaedic Trauma Care Capacity Assessment and Strategic Planning in Ghana: Mapping a Way Forward(2016)

Cost‐Effectiveness of a Locally Organized Surgical Outreach Mission: Making a Case for Strengthening Local Non‐Governmental Organizations(2017)

In‐Country Training by the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons: An Initiative that has Aided Surgeon Retention and Distribution in Ghana(2018)

Estimating obstetric and gynecologic surgical rate: A benchmark of surgical capacity building in Ghana(2019)

Operative Trauma Courses: A Scoping Review to Inform the Development of a Trauma Surgery Course for Low‐Resource Settings(2023)

Nationwide enumeration of emergency operations performed in Ghana(2019)

Improving Global Surgical Oncology Benchmarks: Defining the Unmet Need for Cancer Surgery in Ghana(2021)

A Nationwide Enumeration of Operations Performed for Pediatric Patients in Ghana(2020)

Call on the academic publishing industry to provide equitable access to their journals(2024)

Assessment of Barriers to Essential Surgical Care in Two Communities in the Upper West Region, Ghana(2017)

Enumeration of Operations Performed for Elderly Patients in Ghana: An Opportunity to Improve Global Surgery Benchmarking(2019)

The Brain Drain Myth: Retention of Specialist Surgical Graduates in East, Central and Southern Africa 1974–2013(2017)

Patient Experience and Outcomes of the Locally Organized ApriDec Medical Outreach Group(2019)

Strategic Assessment of Trauma Care Capacity in Ghana(2015)

Strategic assessment of the availability of pediatric trauma care equipment, technology and supplies in Ghana(2015)

Serial Assessment of Trauma Care Capacity in Ghana in 2004 and 2014(2015)

District-level hospital trauma care audit filters: Delphi technique for defining context-appropriate indicators for quality improvement initiative evaluation in developing countries(2015)

Standardized trauma intake form with clinical decision support prompts improves care and reduces mortality for seriously injured patients in non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana: stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial(2023)

First Aid Practices for Injured Children in Rural Ghana: A Cluster-Random Population-Based Survey(2020)

Achievement of Key Performance Indicators in Initial Assessment and Care of Injured Patients in Ghanaian Non‐tertiary Hospitals: An Observational Study(2022)

Pediatric First Aid Practices in Ghana: A Population‐Based Survey(2015)

Consensus recommendations for essential vascular care in low- and middle-income countries(2016)

Utilization of injury care case studies: a systematic review of the World Health Organization’s “Strengthening care for the injured: Success stories and lessons learned from around the world”(2018)

Global guidelines for emergency general surgery: systematic review and Delphi prioritization process(2022)

Factors Contributing to and Reducing Delays in the Provision of Adequate Care in Ghana: A Qualitative Study of Trauma Care Providers(2022)

Differences in trauma care between district and regional hospitals and impact of a trauma intake form with decision support prompts in Ghana: A stepped‐wedge cluster randomized trial(2024)

Improvement in quality of trauma care at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana during on-hours and off-hours with a trauma intake form: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial(2024)

Care of Injured Children Compared to Adults at District and Regional Hospitals in Ghana and the Impact of a Trauma Intake Form: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial(2023)

Experiences of injured patients referred to higher levels of care after initial assessment and management at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana(2024)

Assessment of Local Supply Chains and Stock Management Practices for Trauma Care Resources in Ghana: A Comparative Small Sample Cross-Sectional Study(2021)

Incidence, characteristics and risk factors for household and neighbourhood injury among young children in semiurban Ghana: a population-based household survey(2014)

Generating consensus on road safety issues and priorities in Ghana: A modified Delphi approach(2023)

Unintentional falls among children in rural Ghana and associated factors: a cluster-randomized, population-based household survey(2021)

Incidence of childhood injuries and modifiable household risk factors in rural Ghana: a multistage, cluster-randomised, population-based, household survey(2021)

Fires in refugee and displaced persons settlements: The current situation and opportunities to improve fire prevention and control(2016)

Comparison of childhood household injuries and risk factors between urban and rural communities in Ghana: A cluster-randomized, population-based, survey to inform injury prevention research and programming(2021)

Quality of referrals for elective surgery at a tertiary care hospital in a developing country: An opportunity for improving timely access to and cost-effectiveness of surgical care(2015)

Peripheral Arterial Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa(2016)

Assessment of risk of peripheral vascular disease and vascular care capacity in low- and middle-income countries(2015)

Occlusion of the celiac trunk, the inferior mesenteric artery and stenosis of the superior mesenteric artery in peripheral thrombangiitis obliterans(2009)

Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease in the Presence of a Horseshoe Kidney: A Case Report(2008)

Prevalence of cholelithiasis among persons undergoing abdominal ultrasound at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.(2015)

STARTING A LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY PROGRAMME IN THE SECOND LARGEST TEACHING HOSPITAL IN GHANA.(2014)

Differences in Perception of Breast Cancer Among Muslim and Christian Women in Ghana(2017)

Assessing Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Management in Ghana per the Global Breast Cancer Initiative Key Performance Indicators(2025)

Surgical oncology at a major referral center in Ghana: Burden, staging, and outcomes(2018)

Perceptions of Breast Cancer among Muslim Women in Ghana: An Opportunity for Targeted Breast Health Education in Sub Saharan Africa(2017)

Access to and quality of elective care: a prospective cohort study using hernia surgery as a tracer condition in 83 countries(2024)

Population-based rates of hernia surgery in Ghana(2019)

Antibiotics for Groin Hernia Repair According to Evidence-Based Guidelines: Time for Action in Ghana(2019)

A Global Assessment of Access to and Use of Medical Information: The State of Evidence‐Based Surgery(2017)

Correction to: A Global Assessment of Access to and Use of Medical Information: The State of Evidence‐Based Surgery(2017)

Injured and broke: The impacts of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on service delivery and catastrophic health expenditure among seriously injured children(2020)

Exploring the Relationship Between Surgical Capacity and Output in Ghana: Current Capacity Assessments May Not Tell the Whole Story(2018)

Assessment of local supply chains and stock management practices for trauma care resources in Ghana: a comparative small sample cross-sectional study(2021)

Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in the patient population of Kumasi, Ghana: Indications and findings(2014)

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour Presenting Acutely as Gastroduodenal Intussusception(2011)

Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy: A review of the patient population of Kumasi(2014)

Intestinal obstruction in older children in Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital(2015)

Congenital transmesenteric defect causing bowel strangulation in an adult(2009)

Prevalence of preventable household risk factors for childhood burn injury in semi-urban Ghana: A population-based survey(2015)

Incidence of childhood burn injuries and modifiable household risk factors in rural Ghana: A cluster-randomized, population-based, household survey(2020)

Routine systemic antibiotic prophylaxis for burn injuries in developing countries: A best evidence topic (BET)(2015)

Preferences for oral rehydration drinks among healthy individuals in Ghana: A single-blind, cross-sectional survey to inform implementation of an enterally based resuscitation protocol for burn injury(2022)

No Patients to Resect or Transplant: An Analysis of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Admitted to a Major African Referral Hospital(2014)

Triage capabilities of medical trainees in Ghana using the South African triage scale: an opportunity to improve emergency care(2016)

Nurses’ knowledge on trauma and emergency care and associated factors in Ghanaian district hospitals(2025)

Patient perceptions about laparoscopy at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana(2015)

National health insurance and surgical care for injured people, Ghana(2020)

Identifying emerging hot spots of road traffic injury severity using spatiotemporal methods: longitudinal analyses on major roads in Ghana from 2005 to 2020(2024)

Mobile phone use among commercial drivers in Ghana: An important threat to road safety(2018)

“We are pleading for the government to do more”: Road user perspectives on the magnitude, contributing factors, and potential solutions to road traffic injuries and deaths in Ghana(2024)

Geospatial analysis of injury severity on major roads in Ghana (2017–2020): implications for targeted injury prevention and control initiatives(2024)

Changing Epidemiology of Intestinal Obstruction in Ghana: Signs of Increasing Surgical Capacity and an Aging Population(2015)

582 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Occurs at an Earlier Age in Africans, Particularly in Association With Chronic Hepatitis B(2015)

Colon Perforation Caused by Migration of a Bone Graft Following a Posterior Lumbosacral Interbody Fusion Operation(2010)

Assessing the appropriateness of blood transfusion among injured patients at a Ghanaian tertiary hospital: Time for clarity on the use of a scarce resource(2021)

Editorial commentary and call for papers—Humanitarian surgery in conflict zones(2024)

An evaluation of the Hawthorne effect in a clinical trial of trauma care in Ghana(2024)

Evaluation of Muscle Atrophy after Axillary Lymph Node Dissection(2009)

Task Shifting and Task Sharing to Strengthen the Surgical Workforce in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Existing Literature(2023)

Orthopedic care capacity assessment and strategic planning in Ghana: mapping a way forward(2016)

Surgical Repair of a Giant Renal Artery Aneurysm: A Case Report(2008)

GIANT SOLITARY NEUROFIBROMA IN THE GLUTEAL AREA OF A PATIENT WITHOUT NEUROFIBROMATOSIS.(2012)

Hand ischemia caused by solitary humeral exostosis irritating the brachial artery(2011)

Benchmarking Global Surgical Oncology: Defining the Unmet Need for Cancer Surgery in Ghana(2017)

Migrants in the Trade Sector of Ghana: The Case of Chinese Migrants(2018)

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