Country Principal Investigator
CameroonDr. Anastase Dzudie is the Principal Investigator for Central Africa IeDEA in Cameroon. Dr. Dzudie has over 20 years of experience combining clinical care, research, and capacity-building to reduce Africa’s cardiovascular disease burden. He is a clinical cardiologist, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Yaoundé I and Head of the Cardiac Arrhythmias Unit at Douala General Hospital. A co-founder of the Clinical Research Education, Networking and Consultancy (CRENC), Dr. Dzudie has extensive experience in training and mentoring clinical researchers in Cameroon and the region.
He currently serves as President of the Cameroon Cardiac Society and is the President-Elect of the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR). He serves on global expert committees, including the American College of Cardiology Digital Health Working Group, the Acute Heart Failure Care International Experts’ Group, and the Lancet Commission on Sudden Cardiac Death.
Dr. Dzudie trained in Internal Medicine in Yaoundé, specialized in Cardiology and Cardiac Arrhythmias at the University Hospital of Lyon, France, and completed his PhD in Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.