Charles Odamtten Easmon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Ghanaian Surgeon Specialist
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About Charles Odamtten Easmon
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- Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a Ghanaian medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School.
- Easmon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Ghana in 1964, and modern scholars credit him as the "Father of Cardiac Surgery in West Africa".
- Easmon was of Sierra Leone Creole, Ga-Dangme, African-American, Danish, and Irish ancestry and a member of the distinguished Easmon family, a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent.
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