About Me

Samuel Blay Nguah is a paediatrician and medical statistician based in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Child Health of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

He has been practising as a Medical Doctor at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital since the year 2000, and as a paediatrician since the year 2005. He has a special interest in Paediatric Cardiology, caring for children with both congenital and acquired heart diseases since 2007.

As a medical statistician, he has actively taken part in many surveys and research, with well over 50 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is an ardent user of the R software for data analysis and visualization. He frequently gives talks to resident doctors in training on topics, including research methods and biostatistics.

His hobbies include reading, swimming and gardening.