At the young age of 6, her career path had already been destined when tenants in her compound started to call her Doctor Ellen, possibly due to her excitement whenever there was a new birth in the compound she grew up in.
The doctor that swept 10 outstanding awards at the University of Ghana’s medical school graduation set the bar high, with a riveting story to go with it. And it all started, with a nickname.
“I don’t remember, but for some reason they began to call me Doctor Ellen at the age of 5 or 6. At the time I did not dream of becoming a doctor but I went to secondary school with the intention of studying science,” she says.
During her studies in secondary school, she discovered she loved Biology, and added to her nickname ‘Doctor Ellen’, it seemed her destiny was already set and so she went on to pursue medicine, and she has never looked back.
Ellen came from a family of six with two older brothers and a sister, born to parents with no formal education of their own but believed that their children deserved the education they never had.
From a basic education at Petra International School in Breman to a secondary school education in Yaa Asantewaa Girls Secondary School, scoring As in all subjects except English.
Due to a delay in the results from her November/December, her application to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s medical school was switched to a Pharmacology program. After two weeks, she realized the school was not going to switch her courses and that sparked her decision to move to the University of Ghana medical school.
Credit: Line.com
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