Dr. Okechukwu S. Ogah MSc, PhD, FWACP, FACP, FESC, FACC, FNCS is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and Consultant Physician/Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and an MSc in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), both from the University of Ibadan. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, the Nigerian Cardiac Society, the European Society of Cardiology, and the American College of Cardiology.

He is the Chair of the African Heart Failure Association, a Bernard Lown Visiting Scholar at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the current President of the Nigerian Cardiac Society.

His research interests include surveys on cardiovascular risk factors, national heart disease registries, continental heart failure registries, pericarditis, rheumatic heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, and systemic hypertension. He has over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is married with children.