Ransome Eke MD, PhD, MCHES®
Dr. Eke is a physician-epidemiologist with ample experience in epidemiology and biostatistics research and teaching. His main areas of research interest include social and behavioral epidemiology, population-based research, large data research, epidemiologic methods, spatial epidemiology, public health informatics, and epidemiology of health outcomes - digestive system disorder, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Specific areas of research interest include lung cancer, eosinophilic Esophagitis, healthcare utilization, association of Adverse Childhood experiences (ACE’s) and health outcomes, and social determinants of health.
Dr Eke trained as an MD in Nigeria and with specialization in Emergency and Family medicine. He obtained a Master of Public Health degree at Tulane University School of Public Health in New Orleans- Louisiana; and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Memphis. He completed a clinical research fellowship as an embedded scholar with the Pediatric endocrinology and gastroenterology specialties at the Greenville children hospital in South Carolina. He has taught in several medical and public health education programs.
He started his full time research career at the Thoracic Oncology Research (ThOR) Group of the Baptist Cancer Center in Memphis Tennessee where he was involved in a US National Institutes of Health R01-funded regional quality improvement project titled “Dissemination and implementation of a corrective intervention to improve mediastinal lymph node examination in resected lung cancer”; and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded comparative effectiveness study of multidisciplinary v serial care for lung cancer titled “Building a Multidisciplinary Bridge Across the Quality Chasm in Thoracic Oncology”. He was a recipient of the 2016 “Smaller program award” by the American College of Gastroenterology to investigate the association between exposure to second-hand smoking and disease activity in children with eosinophilic esophagitis.
Dr Eke trained as an MD in Nigeria and with specialization in Emergency and Family medicine. He obtained a Master of Public Health degree at Tulane University School of Public Health in New Orleans- Louisiana; and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Memphis. He completed a clinical research fellowship as an embedded scholar with the Pediatric endocrinology and gastroenterology specialties at the Greenville children hospital in South Carolina. He has taught in several medical and public health education programs.
He started his full time research career at the Thoracic Oncology Research (ThOR) Group of the Baptist Cancer Center in Memphis Tennessee where he was involved in a US National Institutes of Health R01-funded regional quality improvement project titled “Dissemination and implementation of a corrective intervention to improve mediastinal lymph node examination in resected lung cancer”; and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded comparative effectiveness study of multidisciplinary v serial care for lung cancer titled “Building a Multidisciplinary Bridge Across the Quality Chasm in Thoracic Oncology”. He was a recipient of the 2016 “Smaller program award” by the American College of Gastroenterology to investigate the association between exposure to second-hand smoking and disease activity in children with eosinophilic esophagitis.
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