Professor Enoch Akowuah is chair of cardiac surgery at Newcastle University and a consultant cardiac surgeon and at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.

He is chair of the Adult Cardiac Surgery subcommittee of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. He is on the Editorial Board of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery & Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports and is Trial Steering committee member for The NIH funded  PRIMARY Trial.

High impact publications and engagement with key individuals nationally and internationally have ensured direct and substantial impact of his research.