ISMRM: Yaw Mensah on West Africa's role in the global MRI community

Kate Madden Yee
May 14, 2026

Yaw Mensah, MDYaw Mensah, MDAuntMinnie.comCAPE TOWN – In this video interview at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Cape Town, Yaw Mensah, MD, of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, discussed the particular contribution African radiologists make to the global MRI community.

Mensah was a panelist in a plenary session regarding the current state and future opportunities of MRI in Africa; his talk focused on West Africa.

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