Charles Odamtten Easmon

Charles Odamtten Easmon FRCSEd, FICS, FGA, FWACS, GM
Charles Odamtten Easmon
Born	Charles Odamtten Easmon (1913-09-22)22 September 1913 Adawso, Gold Coast
Died	19 May 1994(1994-05-19) (aged 80) Accra, Ghana
Nationality	British subject (1913–57) Ghanaian (1957–94)
Other names	Charlie, C. O.
Education	Achimota College University of Edinburgh (MBChB, DTM&H)
Occupations	Medical doctor Professor of medicine
Years active	1946 – 1993
Known for	First Ghanaian surgeon Medical education
Title	Professor
Spouse	Genevieve Dove ​ (m. 1946)​
Children	7, Linda Kathleen Charles Francis Johnnie Charlotte Charles John Susan
Parents	John Farrell Easmon (father) Kate Salome Odamtten (mother)
Relatives	William MacCormac (great-granduncle) John Farrell Easmon (grandfather) Albert Whiggs Easmon (granduncle) Macormack Charles Farrell Easmon (uncle) Raymond Sarif Easmon (uncle) Charles Syrett Farrell Easmon (cousin)
Awards	Gold Coast Medical Scholar
Scientific career
Fields	Surgery
Institutions	University of Ghana Medical School

Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, FRCSEd, FICS, FGA, FWACS, GM (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist^[1] and the first Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School. Easmon performed the first successful open-heart surgery in Ghana in 1964, and modern scholars credit him as the "Father of Cardiac Surgery in West Africa". Easmon was of Sierra Leone Creole, Ga-Dangme, African-American, Danish, and Irish ancestry and a member of the distinguished Easmon family, a Sierra Leone Creole medical dynasty of African-American descent.