HEALTH & SCIENCE

Dr. Emmanuel Tuffuor: President & C.E.O, GhanaCare/HealthAfrica Inc., & Founder/Chair of The Board of Governors of the famous Animwah Medical Center, Kumasi, whose pioneering work in the Health management sector has won steadily increasing acclaim as "one of the greatest contributions of the advancement of health in the developing word." Not only has his projects been endorsed by the World Bank & IMF, it has also been featured in the New York Times, as this picture shown here clearly depicts.

Dr. Joseph William deGraft Johnson Riverson: Executive Director of Donor Relations & Coordinator of Trachoma Program, World Vision U.S., who has lived a life of exemplary devotion to humanitarian causes. When the Bagauda dam collapsed near Kano City, Nigeria, he was the one who investigated and reported it. He also led World Vision to present relief supplies to the victims in Nigeria in 1988. The “Expanded Program on Immunization, Western Region of Ghana” was designed and implemented by him between 1988 and 1996. He was also one of the brains behind the Zimbabwean Water, Health & Agriculture project. He also established the Ghana Rural Water Project.

Prof. E. Tsiri Agbenyega: Dean, School of Medical Sciences of The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

Prof. K.A.B. Akosa: Immediate-Past Director-General of the Ghana Health Services and former President of the Ghana Medical Association - an internationally renowned pathologist and Chairman of Pathology Dept., The University of Ghana Medical School

Dr. Boadi Sarpong: Allergy Immunologist in Baltimore, maryland

Dr. Opoku Mensa Adubofour: Physician in Fresno, California

Dr. Jacob Jordan Lamptey: Renowned Ghanaian psychiatrist who operates The Valley View Clinic (est. 1987), a private clinic situated at Dzorwulu - a suburb of Accra. This is a unique establishment because it is a general practice with special interest in psychiatry and related problems in a country where psychiatry practice and psychiatrists are rare. His contributions and achievements include the Vice Presidency of Mental Health Association from 1972 to 1983. During the tenure of office he organised students on drug abuse and related problems in most of the secondary schools in Greater Accra and few regional capitals. He also lectured on mental illness and related illness to churches, rotary clubs and many such groups. In 1992, he was selected to Copenhagen, Denmark to do a course in counselling and psychological treatment of refugees and victims of torture. Subsequently Valley View Clinic became a centre for emotional treatment of refugees and victims of torture (i.e., those from Liberia, Sierra Leone and other troubled African countries). Since 1972, he has been a part time lecturer at the Counselling Department of the University of Ghana, Legon. He has also attended numerous international conferences and presented academic papers on psychiatric topics. Over the years the Valley View Clinic has treated more than a thousand drug abusers and addicts some of whom have completely recovered and travelled abroad to study and some hold positions of excellence in Ghana. He was able to initiate the concept of Community Psychiatry during his attachment to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital in the early seventies.

Dr. Kwabena Appenteng: Obstetrician-Gynecologist in Illinois

Dr. A. Asante-Korang: Pediatric Cardiologist, University of South Florida College of Medicine

Prof. Richard B. Biritwum: Former Interim Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School, Professor & Head of Department of Community Health

Prof. A.L. Lawson: Dean, University of Ghana Medical School

Dr. Asafo Adjei: Former President & CEO, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Dr. Kweku Ghartey: Internationally renowned Ophthalmologist and Retinal Surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. K.O Adade: Chief Medical Officer of Greater Accra Region

Dr. Kwabena Kyei-Aboagye: Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics & Gnaecology at Boston Medical Center.

Dr. La Kumi: Former Ghana's Consul-General to Canada & Dentist

Dr. E.D. Yeboah: Distinguished Practice at The Department of Urology, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Accra

Dr. David Acheampong-Mensah: President of LabMed Consulting Inc. (Canada), a group of clinical, technical and management consultants in laboratory medicine. He is also the Associate Director of MEDILAB Diagnostic Services LTD. Ghana).

Dr. Akwasi Amponsah: Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program & Director of the Substance Abuse Consultant Service at the Medical College of Virginia.

Dr. Nyamekye Gyasi-Agyei: Director, Jesse Polyclinic, Lesotho

Dr. Kwame Anyane-Yeboa: a Medical Geneticist and Pediatrician, and Former President of the New York State Genetics Task Force. He is currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics in genetics at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the director of the Division of Clinical Genetics at the New York Presbyterian hospital (Columbia-Presbyterian) and the Children's Hospital of New York (formerly Babies Hospital). He was named as one of New York and America's Top Doctors in Genetics for the year 2001 and 2002

Dr. Yaw Asare-Aboagye: Trustee of Ashesi University, Manager of The Clinical Development and Biometrics Division of Immunex Corporation, Seattle, Washington, where he is responsible for the timely submission of all Clinical Trials results to the Food and Drugs Administration.

Dr. William Kwarteng-Acheampong: Outstanding Research Scientist in Germany

Dr. Larbi Siaw: Distinguished medical practitioner in private practice, Accra

Dr. Yaw Twum-Barima: Chief of Medicine at Trenton Memorial Hospital in Canada and Consultant Physician of Belleville General Hospital and Medical Director of the Diabetic Education Clinics at Belleville General Hospital and Trenton Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Victor Akrofi: Distinguished dental practitioner in private practice, Kumasi

Dr. K. E. Appiah: who operates the famous Bomso Clinic in Kumasi, Ghana.

Dr. Lewis Roberts: Gastroenterology specialist and Senior Associate Consultant of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the Coordinator of The Navigators Africa Partners Medical Group, which helps establish and support private medical clinics in African countries.

Dr. K. O. Dako: Consultant Surgeon. The Trust Hospital Accra.

Dr. Kofi Busia: Medical Herbalist, Medical Scientist and Chartered Chemist.

Dr. Albert Kofi Adu : Asst Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia University Health System in New York.

Dr. Isaac Odame: Professor - Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, McMaster University Medical School, Ontario, Canada

Dr. M N Imam: Anaesthetist, Stockton on Tees, UK

Dr. Sam Amoakwa-Adu: a well known and highly respected successful gynaecologist/obtetrician and a part time commercial farmer currently living in Rustenburg, South Africa.

Dr. Ashittey: University of Ghana, Legon

Dr. Maxwell Boakye: Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center

Dr. Alfred Asante-Korang: Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, and Chief of Transplant Cardiology, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida

Dr. Derek Kofi Owusu Boahene: Physician, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery; Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Professor Peter Donkor: Provost of KNUST College of Health Sciences, and Head of Surgery, Komfo Anokye Hospital

William Osei: Distinguished legal practitioner and psychologist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Currently the director of The Horsham Clinic's Partial Hospital Program in Sprignfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania USA. The Horsham Clinic is the formost Behavioral Health and Psychiaitric Hospital in the Philadelphia region. He is well known in the profession as an advocate for children at risk and is a noted therapist specializing in treating children and adolescents who have been traumatized by physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

Last Updated on December 9, 2007

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