Dimitri Tito

Emmanuel Dimitri Foko Tito is a Cameroonian-American osteopathic physician, military medical officer, and academic. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an internal medicine physician at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He serves as a medical officer in the United States Army Medical Department.

Early life and education

Tito was born in Douala, Cameroon, and grew up in a suburb of the city. He immigrated to the United States at age fifteen and later lived in rural West Virginia.

He earned an Associate of Science degree from Montgomery College in 2013 and a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2016. As an undergraduate, he conducted research on PLGA-PEG biomaterial copolymers and served on the editorial board of The Catalyst, a student research journal in bioengineering and biotechnology.

Tito received a Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2020, where he served as class president and was elected to Sigma Sigma Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Theta Kappa. During medical school, he participated in Rural Health Initiative, the West Virginia Area Health Education Center Rural Community Health Scholars Program, and a social medicine program in Haiti.

Career

Tito completed an internal medicine residency at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, where he served as chief resident. He participated in programs of the Assembly of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Educators (AOGME), chaired the AOGME Residents and Fellows Council, and completed the Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship through the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.

In 2021, he was selected as a Master Preceptor by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. In 2023, he joined Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He practices internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and is board certified in internal medicine. He serves as Co-Director of the Global Health Pathway in the internal medicine residency program and as a faculty advisor in the Colleges Advisory Program.

He serves as a Captain in the United States Army Medical Department and participated in a coalition mass‑casualty exercise at Erbil Air Base, Iraq, while assigned to the 16th Hospital Center, Task Force Savior.

Community health work

As a medical student, Tito contributed to public health initiatives in West Virginia, including work with the Healthy West Virginia Steering Committee of the West Virginia Rural Health Association.

In 2018, he founded the Body Screening Project, a nonprofit providing preventive health screenings and education in underserved communities. The organization expanded to Cameroon, conducting hospital-based screenings in Douala and reporting rates of hypertension, obesity, sedentary behavior, and undiagnosed cardiometabolic conditions.

Research contributions

Tito has authored or co-authored articles in Cureus, BMJ Case Reports, Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, Platelets, and the Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy. His work includes studies on psychiatric and infectious diseases, complications in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and studies of cardiometabolic disease risk factors in urban Cameroon.

In 2023, he contributed to the American Osteopathic Foundation's Project Future Initiative. In 2025, he co-authored a study evaluating osteopathic recognition curricula and their effects on resident knowledge.

Selected publications

  • Tito, E., Ngeh, E. N., Kafando, I., Halilu, F., Olayinka, O., Dixit, S., Taku, O., Tito, A., … (2025). "Impact of medical supply donations: a post-donation survey in a critical access hospital in Douala, Cameroon." Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy 5: e2025014. doi.org/10.52872/001c.137859.
  • Tito, E., Kafando, I., Halilu, F., Olayinka, O., Tito, A., Johney, M., Kenjio, S., Dixit, S., … (2025). "Screening for cardiometabolic disease risk factors: a hospital-based community health screening program in urban Cameroon (URBACAM-D)." Journal of Global Health Economics and Policy 5: e2025040. doi:10.7189/001c.146232.
  • Nohomovich, B., Tito, E., Baker, J., Gomes, T. (2025). "The impact of osteopathic recognition on multiple medical specialty residencies in a university-based setting." Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 125 (3): 127–134. doi: 10.1515/jom-2023-0165. PMID: 39773463.
  • Tito, E., Kuaban, C. (2025). "Need for optimal screening and behaviour change interventions for cardiometabolic diseases in Cameroon." Cureus 17 (1): e77784. doi:10.7759/cureus.77784. PMID: 39981489.
  • Tito, E. (2023). "Street medicine: barrier considerations for healthcare providers in the US." Cureus 15 (5). doi:10.7759/cureus.38761. PMID: 37303393.
  • Mazzeffi, M., Tanaka, K., Wu, Y. F., Zhang, A., Kareddy, N., Tadjou Tito, E., Rock, P., … (2022). "Platelet surface GPIbα, activated GPIIb-IIIa, and P-selectin levels in adult veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients." Platelets 33 (1): 116–122. doi:10.1080/09537104.2020.1856360. PMID: 33284729.
  • Suggs, K. S., Tito, E., Muthukumarasamy, N., Schauer, M. (2021). "Meningitis secondary to disseminated gonococcal infection." BMJ Case Reports CP 14 (9): e244895. dot:10.1136/bcr-2021-244895. PMID: 34580131.
  • Tito, E., Knapp, B., Bucca, A., Espiridion, E. D. (2019). "A case report of schizoaffective disorder with pseudoseizures in a 42-year-old male." Cureus 11 (6). doi:10.7759/cureus.4835. PMID: 31403020.
  • Knapp, B., Tito, E., Espiridion, E. D. (2019). "Delusional parasitosis in a patient with alcohol-induced psychotic disorder." Cureus 11 (3). doi:10.7759/cureus.4344. PMID: 31187009.

Books

  • A Fire in Appalachia (2020)
  • SPARK: A Physician's Path to Purpose (2025)

Awards and recognition

  • 2012–2014: Gaithersburg Germantown Chamber of Commerce Award
  • 2020: U.S. Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award
  • 2023: Michigan Osteopathic Association Outstanding Resident of the Year
  • 2024: AOGME Leadership Award
  • 2024: Innovations in Clinical Care Award, Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • 2025: Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists