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Afua Asante-Otoo, MD

Staff Clinician

afua.asante@nih.gov
301-496-4733

Dr. Afua Asante-Otoo is a diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in pediatric rehabilitation medicine. She specializes in the evaluation and treatment of children and adults with musculoskeletal disorders and other neurologic disorders affecting gait, mobility and functional abilities.

BS, University of Georgia
MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dr. Asante-Otoo completed her physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then went on to complete a pediatric rehabilitation medicine fellowship at New York University School of Medicine/Rusk Rehabilitation.

Dr. Asante-Otoo is a pediatric and adult physiatrist in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the NIH Clinical Center. She also spends time with the Neurorehabilitation & Biomechanics Research Section providing medical coverage for patient in the gait lab.

She is currently involved with research protocols involving patients with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, neurofibromatosis 1, McCune Albright syndrome, Proteus syndrome, Type II GM 1 gangliosidosis, methalmalonic acidemia and the Undiagnosed Diseases Program.

Srivastava, Siddharth, et al. "Updated Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Phelan–McDermid Syndrome." American Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 191, no. 8, Wiley, July 2023, pp. 2015–44.

Asante, A, Pastorius, D, and Sukhov, R. "Rehabilitation of a child with complicated aneurysmal bone cyst." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Preprint (2021): 1-4.

Sukhov, R, Asante, A, and Ilizarov, G. "Telemedicine for pediatric physiatry: How social distancing can bring physicians and families closer together." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Preprint (2020): 1-10.

Sukhov, R, Gold, J, Asante, A, Dizon, L. "Where have all the children gone? Reflections on a flowerless COVID spring." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 13.1 (2020).

Asante A, Greenberg S, Atanelov, L. "Rehabilitation Medicine of Hip Fractures and Falls in Mitra R (2019)." Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine. New York: McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division.