PROFESSIONAL

Head of Unit: Renal/Dialysis unit Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) Since August 2018

Senior Specialist (Nephrology): Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, January 2016

Nephrologist: FGCP (Fellow Ghana College of Physicians) September 2015 to date

Senior Resident in Nephrology:  Renal unit of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital: January 2012 to September 2015

Physician Specialist: MGCP (Member Ghana College of Physicians): Sept.2009

Team Leader: Renal team A, Department of Internal medicine, KATH

Treasurer: Ghana Kidney Association

Co-Supervisor of MPhil theses

National and community conference facilitator:

1. Member: Review of intramural practice policy at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH): 2018

2. Organizing member for Ghana Kidney Association since 2016 up to date.

3. Screening and medical outreach program organized by Ghana Kidney Association for members of parliament in Ghana; March 2018 and the cape coast community, Town Hall inGhana; March 2019

4. Member: Review of foreign students not affiliated to the university training at KATH. 2018

5. Facilitator: Acute and Chronic Kidney Failure. Diagnosis and Management (8^th 2013).

6. Facilitator: 12^th Congress of Africa Association of Nephrology Congress/5^th Congress of Africa Pediatric Nephrology association/2^nd Congress of Ghana Kidney Association, Accra-Ghana, 2013

7. Facilittor: Nephrology CME at A&E Disaster Hall, Komfo Anokye Teaching  (016-2017).

8. Facilittor: Management of hypertension complications (Ashanti Regional GMA Division MDC accredited CPD)

9. Facilittor: Patterns of ADPKD in Kumasi,Ghana (Medical Fiesta Knowledge September 2017,GCP&S, Accra)

10. Facilittor: AKI and Dialysis in pregnancy: Two lives at stake, The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital first experience. (Medical Fiesta Knowledge September 2017, GCP&S, Accra)

11. Facilittor: Acute Kidney Injury: Diagnosis, Management and Prevention.16^th Annual conference of Anaesthesia. A&E Disaster Hall, KATH, September 2017.

12. Facilittor: Thromboembolism Symposium November,2017

13. Facilittor: Nephrology and Gastroenterology Update Course for Resident 4^th to 6^th June 2018 at GCPS, Accra

14. Facilittor: Nephrology Continuous Professional Education December 2018, Ghana College of Physician and Surgeons

15. Facilittor: Management of Hypertension; European Society of Cardiology guideline 2019, KNUST Hospital, Golden Tulip, Kumasi

16. Spectrum of renal diseases: A 13-year retrospective review presented at 2019 Ghana college Fiesta

17. Facilittor: Indication and management of intra dialysis complications at A Nephrology CME at GCPS on Dec 2019

18. Facilittor: World Congress of Nephrology, Canada April, 2021. 2 abstract presentation

19. Facilitator: 40^th Anniversary of School of Medical Sciences, KNUST /World Kidney Day Nephrology CME in Sunyani (10^th March,2016)

TEACHING 

A. Medical Students

• Lecture / Exam Questions 4^th year Medical student 2020/2021: Electrolytes and Acid-base, Investigation of respiratory tract infections, Investigation of urinary tract infections,
• Lecture / Exam Questions 4^th year Medical student 2016/2017: Electrolytes and Acid-base disorders
• Lecture / Exam Questions 4^th year Medical student 2017/2018: Electrolytes and Acid-base disorders
• Lecture / Exam Questions 4^th year Medical student 2018/2019 Electrolytes and Acid-base disorders
• Lecture / Exam Questions Final Year Medical students 2017/2018; 2018/2019; 2020/2021: Acute Kidney injury
• Final year medical students; Renal medicine and general medicine
• Lectures, Tutorials and Bedside teaching of 4th and 6th year Medical Students
• Teaching/Tutorial topics of students includes the following functions of the kidneys

1. Nephrotic syndrome, identification and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and its management
2. Acute Kidney injury (AKI) and its management

• Complications of renal dysfunction and its management

1. Investigations in kidney diseases
2. Common electrolytes disorders in renal patients Dialysis and how it works etc

 B. Other Health Professional 

• Teaching of House Officers, both Senior and Junior Residents in Internal medicine
• Teaching of Rotating Residents from other Department e.g. Urology Fellows, Family Medicine, Surgery residents upon consultation, Obstetric residents. Nurses and other paramedics
• Teaching of HouseOfficers, both Senior and Junior Residents and Rotating Residents from other Department e.g. Urology Fellows. 

• Hematuria and CKD progression (21^st July 2015)
• World incidence of Acute Kidney injury- A meta- analysis (27^th2014)
• Venous thromboembolism in Nephrotic syndrome (5^th may 2014)
• Hyperkalemia (29^th July 2014)
• Transplant immunology (1^st 2014)
• Immunosuppression in kidney transplant patients (4^th2014)
• Bicarbonate supplementation slows progression of CKD (14^th2013)
• Hepcidin in anemia of chronic illness (3th July, 2013)
• Treatment of acute renal failure due to multiple myeloma with chemotherapy and extended high cut off hemodialysis (14^th May, 2013)
• Reno -vascular Diseases (1^st March, 2013)
• Kidney transplant protocol (24^th June 2014)
• Postoperative management of kidney transplant patient (25^th June, 2014)

C. Residents

• Obstetrics and Gynecology (KATH): Pregnancy Related Acute Kidney Injury 2017
• Internal Medicine (KATH): Vascular Access   2016, Acute Interstitial Nephritis (Clinical Diagnosis and Management 2017)
• Internal Medicine (KATH): Lupus Nephritis Management 2018,2019
• Internal Medicine (KATH: Urinary Tract Infection 2019

D. General Public

• Teaching of the general public on awareness and prevention of kidney and other medical related diseases via TV and Radio stations, churches etc.