Emmanuel Sackey

Always be kind, especially when life is unfair to you. Someone, somewhere is counting on that kindness

Celebrating excellence! 🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Edward P. K. Kwakye on your induction as a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. A true reflection of hard work and dedication. 👏🏾

Seeing African IMGs match into surgery is always so inspiring

Psalm 100..God did #pathmatch #match2026

God did🙏🏾! #Match2026 #SutterHealthMatchDay2026

My brother passed his engineering boards. My sister was offered admission to UChicago’s Microbiology PhD program. My brother was offered admission to Howard’s MD program. We’re rallying so hard this weekend like 😂group chat full of moneymakers

Excited to be staying in Indiana. I’m going to be a Family Medicine Physician🥂🎊.

Smartest guy I know Nobody shock

YOUR BOY IS GOING TO BE A YALE TRAINED CARDIOTHORACIC SURGEON!!!!

All thanks to God winning the abstract poster competition at ACPNJ 2026 #Cardiology #ACPNJ @SPUHIMresidents

All Thanks to Allah Can’t believe I’m going to be double board certified in Internal Medicine and pediatrics. #Match2026 @TheNRMP @UDUSOK

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I wanted to take some time to celebrate my wife today. She is the usual quiet and non-social media type (and yes two opposite married). Today she matched into the Internal Medicine residency program and by the special Grace of God will be an internist in the next three years. But the journey didn’t start today. It’s being a rollercoaster ride; the ups and downs and she is the perfect description of “when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade with it.” She has mastered that art. In 2016, we had just started dating when she took the decision to go back to med school in Nigeria on completing a degree in Nursing from Ghana. It was a tough choice giving that we had just started our love journey. I had always told her time is going to pass by quickly. But it was not that simple. At Bingham University where he started med school, she was admitted into the second year class given her background as a nurse and was projected to finish in 5 years, but 5 soon became 6 and 6 became 7. Which is something most Nigerians experience with periodic strikes and other administrative challenges. Three years into med school, I moved to the USA and although we were already doing distant relationship, it felt like the distance had widened. Very tough, but she remained strong and God always showed up. At some point, we just made the decision we weren’t going to pause life because we were each developing our careers and so we got married in the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak (another story for another day). It was exciting at least to be bonded in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony. And you won’t believe what followed? Yes, she became pregnant with our first daughter. The initial excitement of getting married and finding out we were going to be parents soon faded as I had to return to continue with my doctoral studies. So here she was studying for her medical degree (anyone who’s been there knows how tough this is) and now she has to deal with a pregnancy which was marred by hyperemesis and my absence through out the pregnancy period. At some point she had to move out of the student hotel into a private residence which was about 4 miles from the university. But that also came with not just the challenges of staying by herself and trying to get to school everyday, but there was (still is) growing insecurity in Plateau State Nigeria where kidnapping was a business and Islamic insurgency was on the increase. I believe I am not able to completely explain how it felt like for her, but she pulled through and we welcomed our first daughter in last quarter of 2021. Thanks to the many family members, friends, and our beloved nanny who showed up for her (us) during and after the pregnancy. I believe that made a lot difference. But the journey didn’t end there. Moving to the US was tough. She had just finished med school and had no time to do housemanship (internship) or national service and little experience in medical practice. Then again, she was very determined to make things work. In 2024, she registered to write the step 1 of the US board exams and whilst preparing , she took on some volunteering and shadowing duties. In the end, she aced the step 1 and started preparing for step 2 that same year, but as God will have she became pregnant with our second daughter. Once again a very difficult pregnancy and we decided she took a break, stay home and just rest for the duration of the pregnancy. Many things happened in between, but once we welcomed our daughter last year, she was determined to be ready to apply into residency in September 2025. She had just three months to read through every material and helping with the newborn. And it all happened seamlessly. In quick successions, she passed step 2, wrote OET, took on more volunteering and externship roles and prepared her application documents (another story for another day). #Match2025

It's Match Day!! So excited to share that I will be going to @NeurosurgeryNM for my Neurosurgery Residency Training!! Special thank you to all my friends, family, and mentors! #Match2026 #Neurosurgery #WindyCity

I’m just so happy to have another Ghanaian match at my program; my heart is full 😌

UCCfoɔ again

Excited to share that I matched at @DukeSurgery as a preliminary resident!✨ Grateful for the mentors, family, and friends who have supported me along the way!🙏🏿 Let’s get to work!!🔪 @DukeSurgRes #Match2026

Today we celebrate the start of an exciting new journey. Congratulations to our newly matched residents joining Downstate Surgery! We are honored to welcome you and cannot wait to see all you achieve. #DownstateSurgery #MatchDay #NextGenerationOfSurgeons

Who am I that the Lord has blessed? An IMG 1. matched into general surgery (my first love) 2. Matched into categorical position 3. Matched into my first choice 4. Did all these in the face of grief, visa issues, depression. El-Roi, you do this one for me🙏🏾

Sebastian Derick Taylor,MD Internal medicine PGY-1 Flushing hospital 🇺🇸 #2026match God is good.