BRIGHT ERIC OHENE MD, MSc, PhD        

Boston MA | (+1)857-350-2197

|bekingson66@gmail.com

Professional Summary: I am a physician-surgeon scientist specializing in cardiovascular surgery, interventional cardiology, biomedical sciences, public health, and medical entrepreneurship. I have extensive experience working across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. My passion is advocating for global cardiovascular health and promoting evidence-based health care, focusing on improving patient outcomes and addressing health disparities in low-middle income and limited-resource settings.

             Career Highlights and Accomplishments:

· Recipient of the National Interest Waiver for individuals with extraordinary Ability Green Card received 2024.

· Consultant and surgical procurement team member to have procure and kept donor heart viable the longest outside of the body, flown the longest nautical miles from Alaska to Boston, setting world record and opened new avenues for transplant medicine.

· The first to described and conceptualized the Omega Phenomenon, and its possible instigator in some subpopulation of patients with heart attacks/heart attack-like clinical condition in non-obstructed coronary arteries (MINOCA).

· Developed the Dacron Graft External Wrapping Ascending Aortoplasty for Bicuspid Aortic Valve

· Contributed to the design and fabrication of assisted respiratory device (the Smallwood device).

· First to describe the Con-Men Syndrome/73-84 superstition, an age-related phobia/anxiety-like disorder.

· Consultant as physician scientist for the State of Massachusetts’ Medical Reserve Corps during the Covid pandemics and designed and conceptualized and implemented the COVID-19 vaccines, education, equity and access initiative (iCOVEAC).