President Akufo-Addo has settled on Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah as the new chief executive officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi.
The appointment took effect on 8 November 2022, the director of communications in the Office of the President, Eugene Arhin, confirmed to Asaase News.
This appears to settle the protest at the health facility over who should succeed Oheneba Owusu Danso, who retired early this month.
Brief profile
Otchere Addai-Mensah is an associate professor of haematology and immunology in the medical diagnostics department of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences within the College of Health Sciences. He is the deputy director in charge of student affairs and the president of the University Teachers’ Association at KNUST.
A trained medical doctor, Addai-Mensah holds a BSc in human biology and an MBChB from the School of Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), as well as an MSc in biomedical sciences from the University of Westminster in London (UK) and a PhD in immunology and biotechnology from the prestigious RWTH University in Aachen, Germany.
He has taken courses in pharmacovigilance and pharmaco-epidemiology with the University of Bordeaux in France and completed the taught component of an MBA course in strategic management.
Professor Addai-Mensah previously worked as a researcher in the pharmaceutical product development department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology in Germany, and as a resident in the departments of internal medicine and pathology at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.
He is a member of the governing council of KNUST and the governing board of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Ghana. He also serves as the president of the University Teachers’ Association of Ghana (KNUST branch), a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance, and a member of both the British Society of Immunology and the Ghana Medical Association.
He has in the past held both local and national positions, such as national vice-president of UTAG, national spokesman of the Junior Doctors’ Association, secretary to the Ghana Medical Association (Ashanti Division), member of the national executive council of the GMA, and member of the Ashanti Region Prisons Council.
Broad interests
Addai-Mensah has extensive experience of scientific research and general management, and has a number of publications in reputable, peer-reviewed journals to his credit.
His research interests are in haematology, immunology, transfusion medicine, infectious diseases, malariology, biomedical sciences, immuno-epidemiology, and global health.
He is married to Evelyn. They have three adorable children: Naana, Nabee and Nana Akoma.
Professor Addai-Mensah plays tennis in his free time. In his university days, he was a member of the KNUST football team in 1998 and one of three Scrabble players who represented the university in 1997/98.
Jonathan Ofori
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