Rockefeller A. Oteng, M.D.
Dr. Rocky Oteng is a Ghanaian-born, US-trained emergency physician and a faculty in the University of Michigan (UM) Department of Emergency Medicine (EM).
He was a co-investigator on an NIH Fogarty Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Grant between the University of Michigan (UM) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. Through this grant, he played a key role in the development of an infrastructure to establish Emergency Medicine (EM) as a specialty in Ghana.
He is currently the Associate Head of Education and Faculty Development in the Emergency Department (ED) at KATH: the first program in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. He dedicates a substantial amount of time each year, to being on the ground in Ghana. He believes that the only way to impart sustainable, systematic changes that will begin to address the enormous healthcare needs in sub-Saharan Africa is to build local capacity in both clinical care delivery as well as clinical research. In order to ensure this sustainability, he has worked with a broad array of stakeholders including the Ministry of Health, the Teaching hospitals and became a Fellow in the Ghana College of Physicians. He has also developed a strong research interest in injury as it relates to LMIC’s and their populations. His academic work is aimed to build local capacity that will lead to locally trained experts.
