Area of Interest

• Colorectal Surgeries
• Colorectal diseases
• Management of diabetic foot ulcers using negative pressure
• Management of ulcers using herbal preparations
• Management of surgical emergencies

Area of Specialty

• General Surgery

Institutions Attended

• Kharkov State Medical University, Ukraine
• Ludwig Maximillan University, Munich, Germany
• Ghana College of Physicians & Surgeons

Qualifications

• MD
• FACHARZT CHIRURGIE
• FGCS

Employment & Position Held/Hold

• Committee member, SMS @ 40
• Students' coordinator. Surgery Department
• The deputy clinical examination officer
• Senior Lecturer, School Of Medical Sciences/College Of Health Sciences, KNUST 2016 – To Date
• Consultant General Surgeon, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
• Lecturer, School Of Medical Sciences, KNUST August 2010 – To Date
• Consultant General Surgeon August 2010 – To Date
• Senior Specialist, Ministry Of Health, Ghana 2008 - 2010
• Specialist, Ministry Of Health, Ghana 2006 - 2008

Associations/Affiliations

• Member, Ghana Medical Association (GMA)
• Member, Ghana Surgical Society
• Member, American College of Colorectal Surgeons

Honours,Awards & Achievements

• Head, Wonderland Emergency First Aid Trainers June 2015
• Board Member, Grace Baptist Medical Board 2006 – date
• Committee Member, National competitive tendering for supply of non-medicine consumables, dental, laboratory and other diagnostics items (AR/KATH/GD/012/12) – 2008 – date.
• Coordinator, in Health Delivery System for Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) 2013 to date
• Chairman of committee to investigate report on alleged theft of Air condition parts, KATH, Kumsai – Ghana. 17th January, 2013.
• Member of Accommodation Committee of KATH. April 2014.
• Chairman, Committee to coordinate KATH Surgical Outreach Programs. February 2015.
• Apridec Medical Outreach, Sandema, Northern, Upper East, Upper West Regions. 2012-2013.

Professional/Teaching Experience

• Teaching of undergraduate/medical students
• Teaching of postgraduate doctors

Publications

• Joseph Yorke1,2, Pius Agbenorku1,3*, Roland Awoonor-Williams4, Michael Offoe Adinku4, Eseenam Anita Agbeko4, Joseph Yaw Manu4, Kodwo Aboagye Addae4, Papa Kwesi Sonsomir Fiifi Yankson4, Dorcas Ahulu2, Daniel Anning Gyawu5, Nana Esi Abeduwa Abaidoo5, Dennis Afful-Yorkee5 
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• Joseph Yorke, Babatunde M Duduyemi, Abiboye C Yifieyeh, P K S Fiifi-Yankson, Charles Appiah, Dennis Afful-Yorke, Michael O Adinku, Dorcas Ahulu : Schwannoma extending from the umbilical region to the mid-thigh, compressing the major vessels of the right leg: A case report and review of the literature: SAMJ Vol 106, No 7 (2016) 
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• Pius Agbenorku, Joseph Akpaloo, Ken Aboah, Ellen Klutsey, Paa Ekow Hoyte-Williams, Boutros Farhat, Edmund Turkson, Joseph Yorke, Richard Ametih, Romeo Hussey,.Chemical Burn Injury in Kumasi: The Trend and Complications following and Their Management (2015). Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open: October 2015 - Volume 3 - Issue 10 - p e548 doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000000519.
• Adam Gyedu, Joseph Yorke, Lower gastrointestinal endoscopy: A review of the patient population of Kumasi (2015). Archives of International Surgery 4(3): 162 - 166
• Adam Gyedu, Joseph Yorke. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in the patient population of Kumasi, Ghana: indications and findings (2014). Pan African Medical journal doi:10.11604/pamj.2014.18.327.4806
• Joseph Yorke, Pius Agbenorku, Joseph Akpaloo, Charles Appiah, Papa Kwesi Sansomir Fiifi- Yankson, Michael Adinku, Ewura Adjoa Ahenfoa Ben - Crentsil, Dennis Afful-Yorke. Treating Tropical Pyomyositis (Myositis Tropicans) Using Primary Closure and Vacuum Drainage (2014). Surgical Science 5: 333-337.
• Joseph Akpaloo, Joseph Yorke, Pius Agbenorku and E.M.T. Yenli. Managing Acute Wounds with Negative Pressure System in a Developing Country (2013). ISRN Plastic Surgery. ISRN Plastic Surgery vol. 2013 Article ID 796254 (http:dx.doi.org/10.5402/2013/796254)
• Joseph Yorke, Joseph Akpaloo, Pius Agbenorku Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using Negative Pressure with Locally Available Materials (2013). Modern Plastic surgery 3:84-88.
• J. Yorke, E. Agbeko, G. Amoah and F.A. Abantanga. Intestinal Obstruction Secondary to an Intra - Abdominal Foreign Body (2013). Journal of Medical and Biomedical Sciences 2(4): 1-5. (http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jmbs.v2i4.1)
• P. Agbenorku, J. Akpaloo, B.F. Farhat, P.E. Hoyte-Williams, J.Yorke, M. Abgenorku, M. Yore, M. Neumann. Burn disasters in the middle belt of Ghana from 2007 to 2008 and their consequencws (2010). Burns 36:1309-13
• A. Gyedu, M. Damah, P.K. Baidoo, J. Yorke. Congenital Transmesenteric Defect Causing Bowel Strangulation in an Adult (2010). World Journal of Hernia and Abdominal surgery 14:643-645.
• conference proceedings Agbernoku, P., Akpaloo, J. Aboah, K. Yorke, J. Amankwa, R. Burns epidemiological studies: Any clues for burns prevention in the developing world. 55th Annual Conference of College of West African Surgeons, 1-7 March, 2015, Abidjan, Cote D'ivoire.
• Prof. Pius Agbenorku [MD, MPCS, PhD, FPCS(Plast), FICS, FWACS, FGCS] Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery/Consultant Plastic Surgeon Founding Head, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery & Burns Unit 
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• Book Chapter Joseph Yorke, Charles Appiah, Kinsley Osei Boahene (2014). Heart Saver: First Aid CPR AED (ISBN 9 775532457899)