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I am a Professor of Medicine at the Department of Medicine, and the Vice Dean of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS), College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). I have substantial experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, research leadership & management experience, administrative and board room experience, and local & international community services for two decades. Professionally, I am Consultant Physician and Neurologist at the Directorate of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital from 2010 to date. Academically, I hold 2 doctoral degrees (PhDs) in Epidemiology and Molecular Medicine from Durham University, UK and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology respectively.
I have held key administrative positions at the School of Medical Sciences notably as the current Vice Dean who is the Chairman of Student Affairs, Admissions Committee, Education Committee, Transport Committee, and Coordinator in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating student learning and faculty delivery of the teaching programs across 14 departments within the School. Also, as the Head of Department of Medicine of SMS, I have instituted novel teaching and assessment models which have significantly improved student appreciation of the principles and practice of the Internal Medicine course at the Undergraduate level with an uptick in the proportion of students scoring distinctions in the course. As the Founding Chair of Neurology for 10 years and the current Head of the Directorate of Medicine of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, I have supervised the postgraduate training of 30 Physician Specialists and 15 Physician Consultants including 5 Neurologists to address a critical lacunar in the shortfall of Specialist Health personnel in the country. I have also mentored several scholars locally and internationally in their Master and Doctoral theses in other health and science disciplines such as Public Health, Nursing and Biological Sciences.
I am passionate about context-specific research as a way of fashioning locally relevant solutions to the eminent health challenges in my society. The main area of my research focus is on stroke prevention and treatment in resource limited settings, where I have extensively unraveled the genetic architecture for stroke occurrence, identified emerging vascular risk factors, developed tailored mobile health interventions and novel pharmacological therapeutic approaches for stroke prevention and institutionalized lifesaving acute thrombolysis programs to address stroke as a public health menace. I have also made significant research contributions in other neurological disorder including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and the nexus between communicable diseases such HIV and non-communicable diseases including hypertension and diabetes mellitus and strengthening several health institutions in Ghana for operational research and clinical trials. I am an international top researcher ranked 2nd among 1,209 Scientists in the University (KNUST) and 11th among 7,152 scientists in the country by the World Scientist and University Rankings published in January 2026 (AD Scientific Index 2026) with a very high total H-index of 57. On Google Scholar, I have a total of 330 peer reviewed publications, 12,871 citations, h-index of 57 and i-index of 187.
I have attracted research funding in excess of USD 20 million from reputable funding agencies including the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the National to the KNUST and established vibrant and productive network of research collaborations between several departments, faculties and schools within KNUST and across several health institutions in Ghana (University of Cape Coast, Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, KNUST Hospital), in Nigeria (University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin, University of Abuja), Benin (University of Parakou), the USA (University of California San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University), Germany and UK (St. Georges University and Durham University). I am an Editor on several reputable journals including the Stroke journal, the premier journal for stroke research worldwide; the Journal of American Heart Association; Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases; eNeurological Sciences; and locally on the Ghana Medical Journal and Journal of University of Science and Technology (JUST).
