Professional/Teaching Experience
Professional Experience
- Member, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Antimicrobial stewardship committee, July 2021
- Review Editor, Frontiers in Tropical Diseases- Antimicrobial Resistance, November 2020
- Member, Editorial Review Board, Christian Journal for Global Health, November 2020
- Member, National AIDS Control Programme Paediatric HIV Tasks force 2017 to date
- Co-Principal Investigator: Pharmacokinetics of anti-tuberculosis and antiretroviral drugs in children. July 2018 –to date
- Co-Principal Investigator: A text-based adherence game for young people living with HIV. August 2020 to date
Teaching experience
Lecture topics taught to 5th year medical students:
- Paediatric HIV
- Septicaemia including UTI and neonatal infections
- Infection prevention and control
Bedside clinical teaching of fifth year medical students:
- Review & discussion of cases clerked by students (Tuberculosis, HIV and general paediatric cases)
- History taking in paediatrics
- Elicitation of clinical signs
- Comprehensive case management of the child with HIV infection
- Comprehensive case management of the child with Tuberculosis
- Comprehensive case management of the child with TB/HIV co-infection
- Clinical approach to infection prevention and control
Teaching in out-patients clinics:
- Approach to history taking in adolescents
- Approach to examination of the adolescent
- Approach to HIV disclosure
- Approach to HIV counseling
- Approach to evaluation of the sick child on out-patient basis
- Management of general paediatric cases
Student Seminar Topics Facilitated:
- Examination of febrile child
- Maternal and child records book: rationale and application
- Ethical Dilemmas in Child Health and how to handle them
- Palliative care in children
- Essential Care for Every Baby
- Child Abuse in Ghana
- The child with special need in the community
- Levels of prevention in child health with list of 10 common diseases including TB, HIV, Meningitis as examples National Policies affecting Child Health and Well Being in Ghana
- Managing referrals and writing medical reports
- The street child in Ghana
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Neonatal resuscitation with live demonstration
- Breaking Bad News to Families – Counselling and Communication
- Impact of climate change on child survival