Dr Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng has been the Director of University Health Services since 1st November, 2024 and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences since August, 2021. He has extensive clinical, teaching and research experience in infectious diseases (HIV, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance) and family medicine/general medicine. He has been a prinicpal investigator for several projects and the trial clinician for the filariases project at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research into Tropical Medicine (KCCR). He has co-authored over 60 journal publications, contributed to 3 book chapters and presented several papers at local and international conferences.

Dr Ayisi-Boateng serves as chairman, secretary and member of a number of statutory and non-statutory committees, boards and organisations within KNUST, Ghana and across the globe. He contributes to postgraduate training by serving as a trainer and chief examiner for the Faculty of Family Medicine, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Beyond Ghana, he is an external examiner for the MMED programme in Family Medicine at the University of Botswana in Botswana and the Aga Khan University in Tanzania. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Health Organisation in the development of guidelines for antimicrobial stewardship and has served as an executive member of the World Organisation of Family Doctors (Africa region) for the past 9 years.