Dr. Elliot Koranteng Tannor is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Medicine of the School of Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP) and a Fellow of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) after training in Cape Town, South Africa. Elliot is currently an Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity with the George Washington University in Washington DC. He has an MBA in Strategic Management and Consulting and just completed a course in Leadership and Management in Health with the University of Washington by end of June 2019. He is currently part of the first cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN). Elliot is greatly involved with advocacy to help prevent kidney diseases through talks on radio, television, churches and organizations as he believes in reaching out to primary healthcare as a tool to improve access to quality healthcare and universal Health Coverage.  He is also a board member of a non-governmental Organization (NGO) involves in preventing non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney diseases. He has organized free screening exercises for vulnerable groups with the aim to prevent kidney disease. He also trains both healthcare and non-healthcare workers on how to educate and screen people with diabetes, hypertension, obesity and kidney diseases. He has also written a lot of articles for publication in the most popular media houses in Ghana such as Graphic online, myjoyonline.com and Ghana Business news on kidney disease prevention as well as peer review journals. Elliot is also a key Investigator with the May Measurement Month a Hypertension screening exercise held in may every year in conjunction with the International Society of Hypertension.

 

Education with dates of completion

1997- Mfantsipim School

2003- Bsc Human Biology (KNUST)

2006: MBChB (Medicine and Surgery) Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

2012: Member of the West African College of Physicians

2013: MBA Strategic Management and Consulting (KNUST)

2016: Fellow of the International Society of Nephrology, Cape Town South Africa

2016: MPhil Nephrology (Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa)

2016: Cert Nephrology College of Medicine South Africa (CMSA)

2018: Fellow of the West African College of Physicians (FWACP)

2019: Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity George Washington University DC, USA

2021-Date: PhD candidate, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana

Appointments

2006 – 2010: House officer/Medical Officer, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

2010 – 2012: Resident in Internal Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

2012 – 2016: Specialist Physician at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

2012 – 2014: Clinical Demonstrator of the School of Medical Sciences, KNUST

2016 – Date: Senior Specialist Physician/Nephrologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana

2016 – 2020: Adjunct lecturer of the School of Medical Sciences, KNUST

2019 – Date: Chairman, Young Nephrologist Committee (African Association of Nephrology)

2020 – Date: Member of African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) COVID-19 working group

2020 – Date: Senior Lecturer School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST

Awards and honours

2006: Ghana Medical Associations Overall Best Medical Student in the final part II MBChB

2006: Addo Kuffour prize for the Best Student in Medicine in the final part II of MBChB

2006: Ben Baffoe-Bonnie prize for the Best student in child health

2006: J. G. A. Woode prize for the Best all-round student at the final part II MBChB exams

2006: J. W Acheampong prize for the Best Student in Junior and Senior Clerkship in Medicine.

2016: Distinction in Sub-Specialty Certificate in Nephrology, College of Medicine of South Africa (SA)

2016: MPhil in Nephrology, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town South Africa (Cum laude)

2016: Faculty Awards for a Structured Master’s Program MPhil (Nephrology) in Stellenbosch University

 

Publications: Elliot has 24 publications in peer-review journals, written 17 online educational pieces and kidney disease prevention and COVID-19 and written a book on “How to prevent kidney disease”.

Some of the 24 Publications in peer review journals

1. Elsayed, H.M., Wadee, S., Zaki, M.S., Were, A.J., Ashuntantang, G.E., Bamgboye, E.L., Davids, M.R., Hafez, M.H., Mahamat, M., Naicker, S. and Niang, A.,…Tannor EK…2020. Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of the renal complications of COVID-19 in Africa. African Journal of Nephrology, 23(1), pp.109-126.
2. Phillips, R.O., Robert, J., Abass, K.M., Thompson, W., Sarfo, F.S., Wilson, T., Sarpong, G., Gateau, T., Chauty, A., Omollo, R. and Otieno, M.O.,…Tannor EK.. 2020. Rifampicin and clarithromycin (extended release) versus rifampicin and streptomycin for limited Buruli ulcer lesions: a randomised, open-label, non-inferiority phase 3 trial. The Lancet.
3. Tannor, E.K., Akumiah, E.O. and Norman, B.R., 2019. Outcomes in medical admissions with hyponatraemia in Ghana–a single-centre study. African Journal of Nephrology, 22(1), pp.40-45.
4. Tannor, E.K., Sarfo, F.S., Mobula, L.M., Sarfo‐Kantanka, O., Adu‐Gyamfi, R. and Plange‐Rhule, J., 2019. Prevalence and predictors of chronic kidney disease among Ghanaian patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus: A multicenter cross‐sectional study. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
5. Tannor, E.K., Akumiah, E., Adusei, K. and Bedu-Addo, G., 2019. SUN-252 Quality of life among the stages of chronic kidney disease in Ghana – A single centre study. Kidney International Reports, 4(7), pp.S263-S264.

 

For further information:

Google scholar page:     https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vy3MNrMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN

Research gate page:       https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elliotk_Tannor

Orchid account:               https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5978-0510