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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARYAdaptable health care administrator accustomed to the integration of new health care delivery systems and restructuring of work and in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
An emergency medicine fellow with over 12 years working actively in the medical field ensuring high standards of culturally competent care for a wide variety of patients with diverse needs and providing emergency medical care direction for the University of Ghana Medical Centre, Legon. Immediate past Northern Regional Coordinator for the National Ambulance Service. Immediate past Head of Accident and Emergency department of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale.
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS- Ghana Medical and Dental Council Permanent Registration (up to date)
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MBChB - (2006)
- Bachelor of Medical Science (October 2002)
- Part I (Membership) Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons-Faculty of Emergency Medicine: September 2010.
- Part II (Membership) Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons-Faculty of Emergency Medicine: September 2012.
- Fellow, faculty of emergency medicine, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons: September 2017
PROFESSIONAL / COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS- Member, Ghana Medical Association
- Member, Ghana Medical & Dental Council
- Member, African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM)
- Chairman, Doctors association of TTH (DATTH) August 2015
RESEARCH INTERESTS- Trauma & injury prevention and contributing factors
- Emergency ultrasound and Critical care
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
RESEARCH/PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES- Evaluation of a patient resource and empowerment tool, the traffic light diabetes records booklet: a preliminary report. This was a poster presentation at the 18th international diabetes federation congress in France.
- Poster presentation at the first African emergency medicine conference in Accra: an assessment of health-seeking behaviours of patients presenting to the KATH ED, 30th October to November 1st, 2012.
- Co-author for AFEM handbook of acute and emergency care January 2013
- Solomon Gumanga, Godfred Takyi, Hakeem Ofosu, Sunday Imogie, Bill Koomson: catamenial haemothorax masquerading pulmonary tuberculosis? A case report of a 28-year-old woman who presented with recurrent haemothorax and empyema thoracis (American Journal of medical case reports. 2015, vol. 3 no. 11, 362-366) doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-3-11-4
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PROFILEDR. EMMANUEL KWEKU ATUA ASANTE BSc, MBChB, FWACSHEAD OF UROLOGICAL SERVICES/CONSULTANT UROLOGISTDr. Emmanuel Kweku Atua Asante is a Consultant Urologist who graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School in 1998 and had his housemanship at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital from 1999 to 2000.Dr. Asante undertook an internship programme at the Sheba Medical Centre (the leading medical centre in the Middle East in Tel Hoshimer, Israel).With over 10 years of post specialization experience and a special interest in Endourolgy and Stone disease, Dr. Asante is a member of the Ghana Urological Surgeons Association and the American Urological Association. He is also a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons -Urology-division.He speaks English, Twi, and Ga.
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Dr. Anarfi Asamoa-Baah was the Deputy Director of the World Health Organization for a period of Ten years, from 2007-2017. Before he was appointed Deputy Director General, he held various senior positions at the World Health Organization (“WHO”), ranging from Senior Policy Adviser to the Director General, Executive Director, Governing Bodies, Partnerships and Country Support Executive Director, Health Technologies and Pharmaceuticals, Assistant Director General, Communicable Diseases and Assistant Director General, HIV, TB, Malaria Clusters.Dr. Asamoa-Baah graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School and had his postgraduate training in Community Health, Health Planning, Health Economics and Health Policy in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Denmark. He has served on the boards of the Global Fund for TB, HIV & Malaria, Global Alliance for Vaccines, and Immunization (GAVI), The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Stop TB Partnership, and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership.Some of the key achievements during his time at WHO include the establishment of the 2005 International Health Regulations, Global Visibility for Neglected Tropical Diseases, the revitalization of Primary Healthcare, the establishment of the Pre-qualification programme as part of the WHO Essential Medicines Programme and the development of the first Global Strategy for Traditional Medicine. He is now based in Ghana, where he is a Presidential Advisor on Science, Technology and Innovation and was recently appointed as the Presidential Advisor for COVID-19.
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Dr. Darius Osei is a seasoned hospital leadership and management expert with over Twenty-Nine (29) years of experience in hospital management in both the public and private sectors. He has held a number of hospital management positions including serving as a Medical Director of a Secondary level healthcare provider in Cape Coast, Ghana, now a tertiary level healthcare provider (The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital). He also led the transformation agenda of one of the most successful quasi-government hospitals in Ghana (The Trust Hospital). Aside from leading the service provision expansionary drive of the Hospital, Dr. Osei as the General Manager led the establishment and opening of Eight (8) new branches which are doing very well.Due to his prowess in leading hospital management and transformation, he was appointed in July 2018, by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, as the first-ever Chief Executive of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) with the mandate to operationalize same. The UGMC is designed to become the first quaternary level healthcare provider in Ghana with the intention of serving the West African sub-region and beyond.Dr. Osei is a qualified Medical Doctor. He also holds a master’s degree in Hospital Management. He has attended and shared his experience at a number of local and international workshops, seminars and trainings relevant to his area of expertise, healthcare management.
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Dr. Samuel Yaw Opoku, is the Registrar of the Allied Health Professions Council, Ministry of Health. He was a Senior Lecturer and served as a Head of Department of Radiography, University of Ghana as well as the Head of the Radiotherapy Unit at the National Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. Ghana.He holds Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Radiation Medicine from Howard University in Washington DC, USA, Master of Philosophy and Doctor in Philosophy from City University, London. He also has Post-Graduate Diploma Certificate in Research and Ethical Review from Keeley University, UK.He has served on several Boards and Committees of the Ministry of Health and University of Ghana as well as other public and quasi-governmental organizations. He is an External Examiner of several Universities including University of Cape Town in South African and also serves as an Assessor for the National Accreditation Board of Ghana.On July 8, 2020, His Excellency the President of the Republic appointed him to serve on Board of Directors of University of Ghana Centre, Legon, Accra.
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Professor Francis Dodoo is a demographer with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana. He has chaired the boards of the Export Development and Agricultural Investment Fund (EDAIF), Ghana's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC), and the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). Professor Dodoo is a 4-time Olympian and was voted Ghana’s Sportsman of the Year in 1987.Professor Doodoo served as President of both Ghana Athletics (GAA) and the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and was awarded the Grand Medal of the Republic of Ghana in 2006 for his contributions to the country. Beyond Ghana, he currently serves as Chair of the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) board, Chair of the Governance Commission of World Athletics (WA), and as a member of the Governance and Integrity Committee of the Commonwealth Games Foundation (CGF).
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Hon. Seth Adjei Baah is a successful Business Executive with excellent trade and business negotiations skills who has over 35 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience in the manufacturing, trading, construction, and hospitality industries. He is skillful in strategic policy formulation and implementation with proven track record of success in diverse business concerns in both the private and public sectors.He has served on public boards such as the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Microfinance and Small Loans Centre, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Trust Fund Board, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministerial Advisory, Ramada Resort and the Regent University College, Accra.Hon. Seth Adjei Baah is also a political and government functionary in the areas of Trade, Industry and the Medical Sector having served as a member of parliament for the Nkawkaw Constituency. He is an advocate and strong negotiator for private sector business, trade and investments in Ghana and Africa. He has served in and led various organizations such as the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and the Pan African Chamber of Commerce as the President. He holds a master’s degree in Governance and Leadership from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.
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Professor Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu holds a First-Class BSc. Zoology Degree from the University of Ghana, a PhD from Edinburgh University and is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a biodiversity and environmental specialist, who has received several meritorious awards in recognition of her contribution to wildlife research, training, and capacity development in Africa, including Member of Honour, conferred by BirdLife International, and Officer of the Order of the Golden Ark, awarded by His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.Prof. Ntiamoa-Baidu’s international experience includes serving as: Advisor on biodiversity issues for the Forum for Corporate Responsibility of BHP Billiton, the largest global extractive industry (2010-2019); Director for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) International Africa and Madagascar Programme, Switzerland (1998-2008); Member of Council of BirdLife International for nearly 10 years and Vice President for Africa up to 2012; Member and subsequently Chair of the Ramsar Convention’s Scientific and Technical Review Panel (1993-1999). She was one of the five African environment experts selected to meet President Clinton (then President of the United States) in 1998, and spokesperson for environment and biodiversity at the World Summit Civil Society Hearings in New York in 2005. Among her many contributions to environment and nature conservation are the establishment of the Ghana Wildlife Society (a national NGO) and the Centre for African Wetlands.As an academic, she combines senior level university administrative experience (having risen to the level of Pro-Vice Chancellor – Research, Innovation & Development) with teaching, extension service and research, as well as capacity development for young faculty. Her passion for mentoring and supporting early career faculty has resulted in raising several million US Dollars in grant funds to support PhD/MPhil candidates/scholars of the University of Ghana and other West African universities. Her research has focused on wetland and waterbirds, as well as general wildlife ecology and has over 100 publications on various aspects of biodiversity and environmental conservation. In 2010, the University of Ghana awarded her its Distinguished Award for Meritorious Service for her contribution to the academic programme of UG, extension work with policy makers and development practitioners and resourcefulness in fund-raising for research; she also received the College of Basic and Applied Sciences’ Meritorious Award in 2021 in recognition of her many years of outstanding service, dedication, commitment to the College.Professor Ntiamoa-Baidu has extensive management experience/expertise, ranging from institutional development to mobilization and management of resources, and including managing multi-cultural teams located in wide geographical areas, developing, managing, and fundraising for large programmes funded by multiple donors, policy formulation and programme/project evaluation. She served as a Member of the Council of University of Ghana (2017-2021); is currently the Board Chair of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) and Principal Representative of the Government of Ghana on the Ghana/USA Power Compact.
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Honourable Godfred Dame graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) in 2001 and proceeded to the Ghana School of Law from where he obtained his professional law qualification in 2003. He subsequently commenced his professional law practice with the firm of Messrs. Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co., a law firm in Ghana, specializing in various aspects of civil litigation.In 2006, in recognition of his contribution towards the defence of the media and human rights, rule of law and civil liberties generally in Ghana, Honourable Dame was awarded the Open Society Initiative Fellowship, and selected to pursue the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He was part of the teaching faculty for Company Law and Practice at the Ghana School of Law from 2011 to 2016.In 2017 he was appointed the Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and served on very sensitive committees of the Ghana Bar Association contributing to the formulation of policy in the training of lawyers, notable among them being the Pupilage and Juniors Committee, which is concerned with the upholding of standards among junior practitioners of the law. He serves on the Legal Service Board, the Ministerial Advisory Board of the Ministry of Justice, the Board of the Public Procurement Authority, and the Board of the University of Ghana Medical Centre LTD. Honourable Godfred Dame is currently the substantive Attorney General and Minister for Justice of the Republic of Ghana.
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Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo is the Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) at the University of Ghana. She is an experienced academic and university administrator, with twenty years of experience in the higher education sector. She brings a lot of innovation, resourcefulness, and tact to her professional engagements, and is adept at change management. As Pro Vice-Chancellor (ASA), she brought significant technological innovation to impact the University’s academic and administrative processes. Professor Amfo is a professor of Linguistics and obtained her PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has a post-graduate certificate in Administration and Management from Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and has received additional training in higher education management and leadership from Harvard Business School, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and INSEAD, France.Professor Amfo has acquired extensive multi-cultural experience through various professional engagements in twenty countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. She is the Chair of the Interim Executive Committee of the African Humanities Association (AHA), an off shoot of the African Humanities Program. She is Co-founder and the Acting President of the African Pragmatics Association. Professor Amfo is a fellow of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies, German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD), Commonwealth Professionals Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the prestigious International Women’s Forum Leadership Program. Her Board membership include the Coalition of People Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence & Harmful Practices (COPASH), UG-HFC Limited, the World Universities Network.
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Professor (Mrs.) Olivia Anku-Tsede is a Notary Public and a corporate and commercial law lawyer with over 25 years standing at the Ghana Bar. She has extensive experience in providing consultancy services in the areas of regulatory regimes, financial security, real estate, policy development, compliance, organizational development, change management, employee relations, legal and transaction risk management, public private partnerships, as well as enterprise development. She is an Associate Professor of Regulation & Organization in the Department of Organization & Human Resource Management at the University of Ghana Business School, as well as the Legal Counsel of the University of Ghana.Professor Anku-Tsede holds a PhD Degree in law from the Manchester University School of Law. She also holds a Qualifying Certificate (BL) from the Ghana School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from the University of Ghana. She is certified by the General Teaching Council of Scotland as a Qualified Teacher in Business Management for higher education and licensed by the National Pensions Regulatory Authority as an independent trustee for pension funds. In addition to being an academic, Professor Anku-Tsede has had extensive legal private and corporate practice. She worked with Akuffo-Addo, Prempeh and Co. and Awoonor Law Consultancy before starting her own practice.She has worked in various leadership and challenging technical capacities, including being a transaction advisor and consultant to a number of local and cross border transactions and projects involving multi-party contract negotiations. She has also led a number of research and legal experts in various projects and complex transactions, including conducting transaction and project legal due diligence and transaction risk assessment in many diverse areas, as well as listing on the Alternative Market of the Ghana Stock Exchange. She has also led multi-disciplined teams in a number of multi-national parties in both local and international negotiations and mediation.Professor Anku-Tsede has served on a number of corporate, not-for-profit and pension funds Board of Trustees and Governing Councils as a chairperson and a member. She is a member of the Governing Council of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Board of Directors of the University of Ghana Enterprises Limited, Coca Cola Pensions and Provident Fund Board of Trustees and the chairperson of the Garrison Methodist Presbyterian Church Welfare Fund and Scheme. She was a member of the Governing Board of the National Identification Authority, Board of Trustees of the Japan Motors & Associate Companies, and the Board of Directors of the Ghana German Economic Association. She has published extensively in a number of top international journals.
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Dr. Baffour Awuah is currently the Chief Program Officer, Medical and Dental Unit at the Technical Directorate of the Ministry of Health. He is a Consultant Clinical/Radiation Oncologist. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1986 with Bachelor of Science, Human Biology (General) and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1989. He pursued postgraduate training at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and qualified as a Fellow of Radiation Oncology in 1998. He pursued management studies at KNUST and graduated in 2010 with MBA, Strategic Management and Consultancy.He has over thirty (30) years’ experience in Health care services and Research. He worked actively as a Clinician from 1990 as Medical Officer, at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and qualified as a consultant from 1998 onwards. He was the Head of Directorate of Oncology (KATH) from 2004 to 2010 and Medical Director (KATH) from 2010 to 2018. He has previously served on several Boards, such as Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Board, Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM). He has also served on a number of Committees at the National Level in the past such as National Blood service committee, Ministerial Committee on Human Resources (MOH). MOH Vehicle Revolving Fund Committee.At the International Level, He has been a Technical Advisory Group Member on Cancer Prevention and Control for WHO in 2005, Executive Committee Member for Breast Health Global Initiative and Currently a member of WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative and WHO Strategic Advisory Group Member on Non-Communicable Diseases. He has been involved in several Cancer Research locally and internationally. His major Research areas are Cancer Epidemiology and Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Dr Baffour Awuah joins this Board with His Local, National and International Experience in Health Care service delivery and Research at all levels of care.
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Julius Fobil is a Professor of Environmental Health with an outstanding academic career; having contributed significantly to the field of Environmental Epidemiology in Ghana and beyond. He has over hundred (>100) peer review publications in the field and has trained more than 80 students at undergraduate and doctoral levels, including postdoctoral fellows. He is a fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, an academy of internationally renowned fellows in Environmental and Occupational Health and a Fellow of Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Provost of the University of Ghana’s College of Health Sciences; having previously served as Dean of its School of Public Health. Also currently serving as the Interim Director of the West Africa Centre for Global Environmental & Occupational Health, he is also an Associate Scientist at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. His research focuses on environmental exposure assessment; including such assessments in the informal sector economy, urban environmental health in low-income economies and more recently, he has been involved in research capacity building in environmental and occupational health in West and Central Africa regions.
Meet The Team
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Christiana Kafui Kuti
Senior Specialist (OBGY)
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Afua Sarpong Gordon
Senior Specialist (OBGY)
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Joseph Quartey
Specialist (OBGY)
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Chibuikem Onuzo
Snr. Specialist (OBGY)
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Godfred Takyi
SNR. SPECIALIST (EMER. MEDICINE.)
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Ama Osei-Wusu
Specialist (Paediatrics)
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Nana Aba Atsem
Specialist (Paediatrics)
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Wilfred Asman
Specialist (General Surgery)
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Emmanuel Atua Asante
Consultant Urologist
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Francis Addai
Snr. Specialist (Fam. Medicine)
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Eric Korsah
Specialist (OBGY)
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Shirley Wiafe
Specialist, Internal Medicine
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Emmanuel Amoah
Snr. Specialist(Paediatrics)
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Jacob Amoatwo
Snr. Specialist(OBGY)
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Ama Edwin
Snr. Specialist (Bioethicist)
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Ophelia Ansaa Adipa
Specialist (Paediatrics)
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Benedicta Eshun Glover
Specialist (Paediatrics)
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Anarfi Asomoa-Baah
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Darius Osei
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Samuel Yaw Opoku
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Francis Dodoo
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Seth Adjei Baah
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Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu
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Godfred Dame
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Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
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Olivia Anku-Tsede
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Baffour Awuah
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Julius Fobil