Dr. Yaw Nyame

Dr. Nyame is a urologic oncologist with a research interest in health equity and quality in urologic cancer care delivery. His research practice focuses on using patient-centered approaches to build patient, community, and research collaborations to develop and sustain multi-level interventions and studies to eliminate health disparities in prostate cancer and other urologic malignancies. His research team uses this patient-centered foundation to engage in translational health services, molecular and clinical research in prostate cancer, with a focus in addressing inequities among Black and African-descent prostate cancer patients. His research also focuses on evaluating the efficacy and harms of early detection, with a focus in high-risk populations.

He attended medical school at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and business school at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, graduating in 2012. Prior to medical school, he completed a master’s in health services and administration at the School of Public Health at the George Washington University. He completed his urology residency training at the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and an SUO fellowship at the University of Washington, where joined the faculty upon the completion of his training.