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Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei is a Professor of Immunology at the Department of Pathology, University of Ghana Medical School. He is the Coordinator for Worldwide Universities Network and the Australia-Africa Universities Network. He is a Fellow of the following: African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the African Sciences Institute. He is a Fellow and former national president of the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists; Coordinator, University of Ghana Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Teams; Chairman, College of Health Sciences Ethical and Protocol Review Committee; and the Chairman, College of Health Sciences Public Lecture and Scientific Conference Committee. He is a former Deputy Provost, University of Ghana College of Health Sciences and the immediate past Director of Research, University of Ghana. Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei served on various committees of the University of Ghana. He is a reviewer of numerous Local and International Journals and has 134 publications in peer-reviewed journals |
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Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research, Professor Regina Appiah-Opong is a Toxicologist with twenty-six (26) years working experience in medical research. She has led and participated in multidisciplinary research with national and international collaborators. The positions she has held include Research fellow, Head of Department, Part-time lecturer, Senior Research fellow and Associate Professor. She holds first and second degrees in Biochemistry from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Ghana, respectively, and a PhD in Molecular Toxicology from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She had postdoctoral training at the Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, USA. Her research interest is mainly in drug interactions, pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics and drug discovery, particularly from plant sources. She has served as a reviewer for ten peer reviewed journals and published over 60 scientific journal articles, book chapters and patents. Email: rappiah-opong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Adult Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon. Professor Kwadwo Ameyaw Korsah is an Associate Professor of Adult Health Nursing at the University of Ghana, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Adult Health. He completed his Master of Philosophy in Nursing and Bachelors Degree in Nursing and Psychology at the University of Ghana, Legon. He received his PhD degree from De Montfort University, Leicester, in the United Kingdom. His research interest focuses on chronicity of diseases and the social determinants of non-communicable diseases, with a particular emphasis on the role of cultural factors in nursing care, intersection of health and social factors. His research work has also explored the influence of social capital, religion, coping and cultural factors on the management of chronicity of diseases and diabetes, providing valuable insights into how these elements can be integrated into nursing care practices. His research has also explored innovative approaches to non communicable disease (NCD) management, including the integration of digital health solutions and patient-centered care models. He is well grounded in qualitative research. He recognizes the importance of empathy and reflective nursing in improving patient outcomes, emphasizing the need for holistic and patient-centered care. Professor Korsah received the prestigious Best Teacher Award and a Citation in the School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon for 2009/2010 Academic Year |
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National Cardiothoracic Center, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Ghana. |
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University of Ghana School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences Email: nobeng-nkrumah@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Dietetics, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. |
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Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prof. Josephine Akpalu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and is currently the head of department. She renders clinical services at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as a physician specialist and endocrinologist and was the head of the endocrinology unit. She had her postgraduate training in Endocrinology and Diabetes at the William Harvey Institute, Queen Mary University of London. Dr Akpalu had further training in Endocrinology at the Queen Elizabeth Birmingham Hospitals as a Commonwealth Academic Fellow. She is a fellow of West African College of Physicians and Ghana College Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS). She is currently the chairperson of the faculty of Internal Medicine, GCPS. Her research interests are cardiovascular diseases among diabetes and obese patients, thyroid and pituitary disorders in Ghana and has some publications to her credit. Email: jakpalu@ug.edu.gh |
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Department Of Maternal And Child Health, School Of Nursing And Midwifery, College Of Health Sciences, University Of Ghana. She has collaborated and led a team of researchers in the USA and Ghana to complete a research project that tested the feasibility of a culturally appropriate psycho-educational intervention in the form of a randomized control trial. Currently, she is leading a team of researchers in Ghana and South Africa to examine the predictors of psychosocial wellbeing of couples in Ghana and South Africa. |
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University of Ghana Medical School, Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. His expertise is in paediatric clinical pharmacology, especially in the areas of clinical trials, and therapeutics in special patient populations. His scholarly interests range from therapeutics and diagnostics to studies on basic mechanisms in infectious diseases. His research publications have focused on pathogenesis of severe childhood malaria, and clinical pharmacology of antimalarial drugs, including the application of pharmacokinetic modelling to optimize drug dosing. He has a keen interest in research ethics, especially the ethics of clinical research in vulnerable populations and serves on several ethics review boards. He is the Director of Research, Office of Research, Innovation and Development, University of Ghana (UG) and immediate past Director of the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UG.
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Department of Microbiology Biochemistry & Immunology |
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Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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Dr Akua Boakyewaa Konadu Dr. Akua Boakyewaa Konadu is a Restorative Dentist and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Dental School. She oversees the affairs of the Oral Pathology/Medicine Department. She is a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians Surgeons and doubles as the secretary to the Dental Faculty of the same college. Dr. Konadu also has a keen interest in research ethics, which has recently culminated in a fellowship in the Research Integrity Training Program, an NYU-UG collaborative initiative, and a Master in Bioethics from NYU School of Global Public Health. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, both nationally and internationally, such as the British Dental Journal. She also reviews for several journals and is the managing editor of the Ghana Dental Journal. Dr. Konadu is passionate about her work and is involved in academia because she believes in passing on her knowledge and skills, mentoring and grooming undergraduate and post-graduate students, especially females, who aspire to be researchers in a research-oriented institution like the University of Ghana. She believes in giving back to society by changing the narrative through positive role models, which she calls “Changing the narrative, one role model at a time.” Through this initiative, the youth from deprived communities are empowered and motivated to obtain an education, learn a trade, return to their communities, and be positive role models to others. As someone committed to medical education she brings valuable contributions to the committee. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1753-2404 Email: abkonadu@ug.edu.gh |
Professor Andrew Anthony Adjei
Professor Regina Appiah-Opong
Professor Kwadwo Ameyaw Korsah
Professor Mark M. Tettey
Dr Noah Obeng-Nkrumah
Dr. Joana Ainuson-Quampah
Prof. Josephine Akpalu
Professor Florence Naab
Professor George Obeng Adjei
Professor Jonathan K. Stiles
Professor Isaac Kingsley Amponsah
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University of Ghana Medical School, Department of Child Health Read more: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christabel_Enweronu-Laryea |
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Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon Email: ikretchy@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Anatomy, University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana Benjamin Arko-Boham has a PhD in Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology with specialty in Tunour Cell Biology from Dalian Medical University, PR China. He also holds Masters (Human Anatomy) and BSc (Zoology) from the University of Ghana where he has worked since 2007 as a fulltime faculty member and is involved in teaching and research. His research activities concentrate on cancer biology and biomarker detection with principal focus on breast cancer. He is interested in unravelling and understanding the unique genetic alterations and mechanisms underpinning the aggressiveness of African cancers. He also focuses on blood plasma studies for the identification of potential cancer diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. He has a number of publications to his credit and serves as reviewer for several international journals and institutional ethics boards. Read more: http://www.ug.edu.gh/anatomy/staff/dr-benjamin-arko-boham |
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Professor kwaku Asah-Opoku
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Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research https://www.noguchimedres.org/index.php/dr-collins-stephen-kwaku-ahorlu |
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Department of Physioloy, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Korle Bu Dr. Thomas Amatey Tagoe earned his BSc in Biological Sciences and PhD in Cell Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Leicester. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana Medical School, with over a decade of interdisciplinary research experience spanning neurophysiology, mental health studies and science communication. Dr. Tagoe has international experience serving on review committees, organizational boards and executive positions in a number of academic societies. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed to a book chapter on the global emergence of modern science communication. His specialization areas include synaptic physiology, neuroplasticity, epilepsy, mental health, the science of learning, science communication, and STEM education. Email: tatagoe@ug.edu.gh http://www.ug.edu.gh/med-microbio/staff/dr-abi-nimo-kweku-mbchb-phd-mphil-bsc-hons) |
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Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana She is a Pharmacist, and an academic researcher in the field of Pharmaceutics, and has participated in multidisciplinary research with national and international collaborators. She is the former Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology, School of Pharmacy.Ofosua Adi-Dako holds a PhD in Pharmaceutics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST).She subsequently completed her post-doctoral training at the University of South Florida, USA, and is a University of Michigan African Presidential Scholar, USA and USHEPiA Fellow from the University of Cape Town, South Africa Her research activities have focused on drug formulation and biopolymer drug delivery systems for the chronodelivery of drugs for diseases influenced by the circadian rhythm Her research interests include Drug Delivery Systems for poorly soluble acqueous drugs for optimal Biovailability, Drug (Allopathic,Herbal, Nutraceutical) formulation Design and Development, Drug Formulation Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics and has several publications to her credit. She is an Editorial board member and reviewer for international scientific journals and Institutional Ethics Review Committee
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Dr. Koney-Kwaku Nii Koney
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Rev. Dr. Tom Akuetteh Ndanu is the Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, University of Ghana Dental School, College of Health Sciences, Korle Bu. His expertise is in Nutrition, Biochemistry, Biostatistics and Diet and Oral Health. He has over 50 peer-reviewed published articles. Published two Applied Statistics books and One Book on Diet, Nutrition and Oral Health. He is a member Trustees for African Nutrition Society, Trustee member of eNutrition Academy, London, Head of Treasury for ANS for ten years. Currently a Member of Committees including, Ethical and Protocol committee of the College of Health Sciences, Institutional Review Board of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. Member of Editorial Board of Health Sciences Investigative Journal. Chairman of the Research Committee of the University of Ghana Dental School. Current chairman of the College of Health Sciences Chaplaincy Board. A member of the Biennial Scientific committee for the past 8 years. Has attended more than two dozens international conferences where oral and poster presentations were done. Have also ran Statistics for Nutrition Research Workshops in five African countries, all sponsored British Nutrition Society. Been part of the African Task Force for Food and Nutrition Security meetings in DR Congo and Ethipia. Been part of the ECOWAS Nutrition forum that took place on Togo, Guinea Bissau and Liberia, all under the auspices of the West African Health Organization (WAHO). Email: tandanu@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Surgery, Professor Antoinette Bediako-Bowan is Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School and General Surgeon in the Colorectal unit of Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra , Ghana, for the past 6years. She completed medical school (2005) at the University of Ghana Medical School in Accra and went on to have her residency and fellowship training (2014) as a General Surgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, becoming a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons. She had her PhD studies (2020) in Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, describing the epidemiology of surgical site infections in a teaching hospital in Ghana and developing a surveillance system for monitoring surgical site infections in Ghana. She is interested in a research career in colorectal diseases, especially colorectal cancers, defining the incidence, molecular characteristics and treatment outcomes in Ghana as well as research aimed at improvement of infection control practices in hospitals in Ghana to reduce hospital acquired infections, specifically surgical site infections.Email: abediako-bowan@ug.edu.gh |
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Department of Physiology, Charles Hayfron-Benjamin is an Associate Professor in Physiology at the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) and Senior Specialist in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Ghana Medical Centre and Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He also has extensive expertise in pulmonary and cardiovascular function evaluation and runs related laboratories at the UGMS. He earned his Medical Degree and Master's Degree in Physiology from the UGMS and a Fellowship in Anesthesiology and Critical Care from the West African College of Surgeons. He completed his Ph.D. in Medicine from the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, the Netherlands, and Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, United States. He holds several other academic qualifications, including Master's Degrees in Respiratory Medicine and Bioethics from the University of South Wales and New York University. His research is centered on pulmonary and vascular dysfunction in selected patient populations, including diabetes and sickle cell disease, and has a long-term goal to provide treatments that can reverse established pulmonary and vascular dysfunction in these populations. Charles is also an adjunct faculty member at multiple medical schools, including the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, where he mentors and supervises PhD students https://amcore.ug.edu.gh/people/ug-amcore-charles-haryfron-benjamin |
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Department of Immunology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon Email: Akusi@noguchi.ug.edu.gh |
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110 Francis Street, Suite 2A Boston, MA 02215, USA Email: jkpodonu@bidmc.harvard.edu |
Professor Christabel Enweronu-Laryea
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Professor Benjamin Arko-Boham
Professor Collins Ahorlu
Dr. Thomas Amatey Tagoe 
Rev. Dr. Tom Akuetteh Ndanu
Professor Antoinette Bediako-Bowan
Professor Charles Frederick Hayfron-Benjamin
Professor Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi 
Professor Jacques Kpodonu