Kofi Mensah, MD, PhD

Dr Mensah is a graduate of the NIH medical-scientist training program (MSTP) at the University of Rochester where he received his PhD in immunology under the direction of Edward Schwarz, PhD and Christopher Ritchlin, MD. His dissertation looked at immune system regulation of osteoclastogenesis in the context of inflammatory arthritis. His dissertation received the Melville A. Hare Award for Distinction in Research (2009). His other research mentors included John Mudgett, PhD at Merck Research Laboratories, Steven Teitelbaum, MD and F. Patrick Ross, PhD at Washington University in St Louis, as well as Steven Goldring, MD, Edward Purdue, PhD, Lionel Ivashkiv, MD, and Joseph Lane, MD at Hospital for Special Surgery, Joseph Craft, MD and Eric Meffre, PhD at Yale. He has presented at many international congresses including, American College of Rheumatology annual meeting and the American Society for Clinical Investigation annual meeting. He received the Robert Leet Patterson and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award during his post-doc at Yale. He is a co-inventor on several patents. Dr Mensah is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies. He served on the Executive Council for the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program and the Board of Directors of the American Physician Scientists Association. He has mentored high school, undergraduate, graduate and medical students. As part of his mentorship role, he has worked with the New York City Science and Engineering Fair and the New England Science Symposium.