Abdoul M. Kone, MD

Dr. Kone is from Ivory Coast, West African, a population with a heavy predominance in sickle cell disease. He went to medical school in an elite international military medical school (ESSAL) in Togo on the single scholarship from Ivory coast for that school. He later emigrated to the USA where he started all over from English as a Second Language to college and then Medical school at Howard University. Throughout his 4 years as a medical student, he was heavily involved with the Center for Sickle Cell Disease. He also worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Maryland where he published on a protein marker of graft rejection after stem cell transplant in SCD. Dr. Kone is now an emergency medicine resident aiming to subspecialize in chronic pain management. He plans on making appropriate pain management a priority in the care of patients visiting the emergecy department. His ultimate goal is to find a sensitive marker of pain. Until then, he urges us to mainly rely on what makes us the best: compassion and empathy.