Thomas O. Konney is a Consultant Gynaecologic Oncologist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) and a Lecturer in the School of Medical Sciences at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.

Dr Konney has been an active member of the African Cancer Coalition since August 2018 and actively participated in the Workshops and activities on Harmonization of Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa on cervical and ovarian cancers.

Dr Konney is the Programme Director for Fellowship Training in Gynaecologic Oncology at KATH. His research interests are in female cancers and women’s health. He is active in teaching and supervising postgraduate students for the fellowship programs of the West African College of Surgeons and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and has contributed to 2 chapters on ovarian cancers and premalignant conditions of the cervix in the textbook Comprehensive Gynaecology in the Tropics.

Dr Konney graduated with an MD (Honors) degree in 1995 from Almaty State Medical Institute. He became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons, faculty of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2008 and a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2016. In 2012, he completed fellowship training in Gynaecological Oncology at Vivantes Klinikum, Neukolln, in Berlin, Germany and also received a certi?cate in Health Administration and Management from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. Dr Konney completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Global Health in 2011 and a certi?cate in Gynaecological Oncology in 2016 both at the University of Michigan, USA.

He is an active member of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, European Society of Gynaecological Oncology, and for nearly a decade has been a reviewer of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics.