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'''Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie''' is a Ghanaian healthcare practitioner who holds the distinction as the first certified interventional radiologist in Ghana.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Meet Ghana's Only Interventional Radiologist (PHOTO)|url=https://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/health/201511/260324.php|last=Online|first=Peace FM|website=www.peacefmonline.com|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> He led a seven member team of Ghanaiain doctors to perform the first ever brain surgery<ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-04-08|title=Ghana doctors make history as dem perform brain surgery|work=BBC News Pidgin|url=https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-47850011|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie {{!}} RisingAfrica.org|date=12 April 2019 |url=https://www.risingafrica.org/tag/dr-benjamin-dabo-sarkodie/|language=en|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ghana: Dying cancer patient saved by historic surgery|url=https://africafeeds.com/2019/06/27/ghana-dying-cancer-patient-saved-by-historic-surgery/|date=2019-06-27|website=Africa Feeds|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> without cutting the skull are term known as minimally invasive surgery in Ghana,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Brain blood vessel malfunction cases rise|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/brain-blood-vessel-malfunction-cases-rise.html|location=Accra, Ghana|newspaper=Daily Graphic|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> technically known as Endovascular brain aneurysm coiling.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Historic: Ghana performs first brain surgery without cutting skull|url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/historic-ghana-performs-first-brain-surgery-without-cutting-skull.html|location=Accra, Ghana|newspaper=Daily Graphic|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>
== Career and life == He was a vising fellow at the hospital of the university of Pennsylvania in the United States. He also completed his clinical fellowship in Endovascular and Interventional Radiology at the Singapore General Hospital. He lectures at the University of Ghana School of Medicine and Denstistry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ghana making giant strides: Neurointerventional practice in sub-Saharan Africa|url=https://neuronewsinternational.com/ghana-giant-strides-neurointervention/|last=Marshall|first=Suzie|date=2019-11-18|website=NeuroNews International|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> He is also a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons. A recipient of international scholar award from the society of interventional Radiology.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interventional Radiology|url=https://www.euracare.com.gh/interventional-radiology/|website=Euracare Advanced Diagnostics and Heart Centre, Accra, Ghana|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>
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