Ian Frederick Adukwei Hesse, MRCP(Lond) is a Ghanaian academic, physician and a Presbyterian minister.
He was on the faculty at the Department of Physiology at the University of Ghana Medical School, a consultant physician as well as a co-founder and the Vice President of Accra College of Medicine.
He entered the University of Ghana Medical School directly without a pre-medical course due to his superior performance in the final examinations.
He subsequently became a part-time lecturer (associate professor) at the Physiology, and Medicine and Therapeutics department of the University of Ghana Medical School.
He worked in various hospitals after completing his graduate studies at the University of Birmingham until 1987 when he officially became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.
Upon his return to Ghana in 1988 he joined the Department of Medicine at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as a consultant physician.
In 1995 he was vice-president of the association and head of the chest department at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, a position he held for three years.