Dr. Alexander Quarshie, MD, MS

 

Dr. Quarshie is a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). He is a trained medical doctor, scientist, medical statistician and biomedical informatician, and currently serves as the Director and Principal Investigator of the T32 Interdisciplinary Sleep/Cardiovascular disorders research training program at MSM. He is also Co-Director of the MSM Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) program, and Co-Director of the Research Education Training and Career Development (RETCD) program. These programs provide mentored clinical and translational research training to junior faculty as well as pre- and post- doctoral students. Through these programs, Dr. Quarshie has mentored several scholars that are pursuing clinical and translational research careers. Dr Quarshie also serves as Co-Chair of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Translational Research Network (RTRN) Education and Dissemination Sub-committee that is charged with coordinating resources to support comprehensive learning and study throughout the Network and identifying multimedia tools to develop and advance research skills. Dr. Quarshie is Director of the Biomedical Informatics Unit (BIU) MSM and the Co-Director of the Biomedical Informatics Program of the ACTSI. Under my leadership, the BIU has developed and deployed significant informatics infrastructure to support the conduct of and mentored training in clinical and translation health disparities research at MSM. Dr Quarshie is a Faculty in Public Health and Fellow of the Ghana College of Surgeons and Physicians. His research focuses on diseases that disproportionately affect minority populations such as hypertension, stroke and diabetes as well as clinical and translational research training and career development of clinicians, postdoctoral and pre-doctoral students.