Prof. Awuku received a BSC in Human Biology and MBChB from School of Medical Sciences- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical research and Evidence Based Medicine and Anti- Retroviral Therapy at the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a WGO fellowship at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. He is a World Endoscopy Organization Star and currently President of Ghana Association for the Study of Liver and Digestive Diseases(GASLIDD) and the Vice president Hepatitis Society of Ghana. He is a clinician, a teacher and a researcher. He is currently Head, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.