I am a Lecturer at Associate Professor position, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and Consultant Paediatrician at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi Ghana. I am a Fellow of the West Africa College of Physicians and also of Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.

I teach General paedaitrics (with special interest in haematology) to a wide range of undergraduate students including Medical, Emergency Nursing, and Physician assistant students. I also teach postgraduate students in the Master of Public health Reproductive and Child health course in the School of Public Health, KNUST. I have been supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students in their research and theses work and have also acted as local superisor for some PhD students studying abroad. I am also a trainer and supervisor of residents in the residency training for paediatrics in both the West African College of Physicians and Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

At the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, I offer clinical services and I have served as Clinical Coordinator, Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), and also Head of Pediatric Sickle Cell Clinic and Head of paediatric Haematology unit for many years. I have worked in the Sickle cell clinical programme in the hospital since 1993 and has contributed to the success of the Newborn Screening programme in the hospital and beyond since 1995. I served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee, Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease, Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service, Ghana in the early 2000s' when Ghana decided to implement newborn screening for SCD throughout the country. I have also served on other national health technical committees in the past.

I served as the Principal Investigator for The Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium (SPARCo 1, 2017-2021) for the Ghana site. SPARCO consists of collaborative consortium sites at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania- The Hub, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and Abuja University, Nigeria. Clinicians, academicians, and scientists from these 3 sites are participating in activities in health, education and/or research, employing local infrastructure. Currently I aam among a team of clinicians involved in the SPARCO II (2021-2024) for the Ghana site.

I am hte Principal Investigator for a number of Clinical trials in SCD, many of which are about to start; also acted as Principal Investigator for HESTIA 3 Sponsored by AstraZeneca with Protocol Number: D51 36C00009 Clinical Trial , a Randomised, Double-Blind, Parallel-Group, Multicentre, Phase lll Study to Evaluate the Effect of Ticagrelor versus Placebo in Reducing the Rate of Vaso-Occlusive Crises in Paediatric Patients with Sickle Ceil Disease