Professor Nick Ossei-Gerning, a consultant general and interventional cardiologist at Spire Hospital Cardiff and St. Joseph’s Hospital, Newport has been nominated as the new chief of Effiduase in the Ashanti region.
Upon his installation, Professor Nick Ossei-Gerning would succeed the late Nana Adu Ameyaw who passed in January 2026 after a 35-year reign from 1991. The 61-year-old nominee is the visiting general and interventional cardiologist, University of Ghana Medical Centre, in Accra, Ghana.
He was entitled Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to interventional cardiology in the UK and Africa in the 2024 New Year Honours.
Currently Prof. Ossei-Gerning is working as general and mainly interventional cardiologist with two days in the Cardiac Cath Lab per week and a session of clinic and does two to three sessions at Spire Cardiff, as a general and interventional cardiologist.
He has maintained his practice in Ghana, visiting for two weeks every three months to help perform the more complex interventions. Prof. Ossei-Gerning is the Medical Director of Euracare Advanced Diagnostic & Heart Centre – Accra, which he successfully set up with the main aim of helping change the face of cardiology in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2016, he was honoured with Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in July 2016, for his work in cardiology and ED, and currently exploring the psychological effects of heart disease and ED, with professors of Fine Art and Psychology.
In 2015, he was appointed Silas Dodu Chair of Cardiology and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Cardiology and Pudendology at the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences.
He is a leading authority on vasculogenic erectile dysfunction (ED) and a member of the British (Council Member), European and International Societies for Sexual Medicine (BSSM) and was also elected to be a member of the International Consultation for Urological Diseases.
He has been a council member of the BSSM for many years, and a co-author of the BSSM guidelines for management of ED. He co-authored “Sexual function and cardiovascular disease: what the general cardiologist needs to know” published in Heart /BMJ. He has also co-authored and edited several publications on sexual health.
He is a leading expert on pudendal stenting for erectile dysfunction and was responsible for the successful implementation of the first international congress on the subject in Cardiff. He has also set up the world’s first truly multi-disciplinary team with international status to manage patients with ED.
He has been the Network Advisor for the Royal College of Physicians and the British Cardiovascular Society for South East Wales.
Prof. Ossei-Gerning has served on the Executive Board of the Welsh Cardiovascular Society, Co-Director of the Welsh Interventional Cardiology Group, as well as being a member of the Medical Advisory Committee at the Spire Cardiff Hospital for 10 years.
