Ernest Amankwah, PhD is the Director of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA and is also the Director of the Data Coordinating Center (DCC) for Pediatric Multicenter Studies within the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. In this capacity, he directly oversees and mentors epidemiologists and biostatisticians, and collaborates with investigators from the Johns Hopkins community as well as external investigators to provide expertise in study design, analysis, and database design and management.
Dr. Amankwah is an Associate Professor in Oncology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He then joined the Health Assessment and Surveillance Unit of Health Canada in Alberta as an Epidemiologist and later pursued postdoctoral training in Epidemiology at the Alberta Cancer Board within Alberta Health Services in Canada. Prior to joining Hopkins, he was an Applied Research Scientist in the Cancer Epidemiology Program at the Moffitt Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Amankwah is the Data Coordinating Center PI (contracted with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) for the national Children’s Hospital-Associated Thromboembolism (CHAT) consortium, which is home to the largest reported registry and multicenter case-control study of hospital associated venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) in pediatrics, as well as the first and only ongoing multicenter prospective cohort and biobanking study of HA-VTE in critically-ill children. He has collaborated as lead Epidemiologist/Biostatistician on numerous VTE projects over the years, and served as Biostatistician on the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee for the pediatric apixaban program.