Team Members

Prof. Peter Donkor

Principal Investigator

Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Former President of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth – www.afrehealth.org), First Vice-President of the West African College of Surgeons,

Chairman of University Hospital Services Management Board and the Founder of Ghana Cleft Foundation. Former roles include Pro Vice-Chancellor, Provost of the College of Health Sciences and Head, Department of Surgery. He is Founder and former Director, Office of Grants and Research, KNUST. He is a product of the University of Sydney, Australia and University of London, UK. Holds qualifications in surgery and public health from those countries. His research interests include global surgery and injury prevention, cleft lip and palate, research administration and medical education. He has authored several papers, book chapters, and scientific communications.

Prof. Charles Newman Mock

Ph.D, FACS

Professor of Global Health and trauma surgeon with a PhD in Epidemiology. Prior to joining WHO, he was Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

There he held an appointment as Professor in the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine with joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health.

He has degrees in medicine and public health and board certification in general surgery and trauma and surgical critical care. His main interests include the spectrum of injury control activities, especially as they pertain to developing countries. He has been engaged in this work along with a network of collaborators in Ghana, India, Mexico and Vietnam.

In March 2007, Dr Mock joined WHO's Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP) in Geneva, where he served as the Medical Officer in charge of developing WHO's activities on Emergency Trauma Care and on Burn Prevention and Treatment. He continues to serve as Chair of the Working Group for Essential Trauma Care of the International Society of Surgery, a collaboration of the Society and WHO which seeks to improve the care of injured patients. He also serves on the American College of Surgeon’s Committee on Trauma.

Prof. Robert Quansah

Co-Investigator

Associate Professor of surgery and an orthopaedic surgeon. A product of Ukrainian Institute of Advanced Medical Studies and a fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.

His research interests lie in the field of injury prevention and control and capacity building in the care of the injured. He has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals and reviews for many international journals. He is a member of the Ghana Surgical Research Society, Ghana Orthopedic Society and the Ghana Medical Association.

Dr. Adam Gyedu

MD, MPH, FGCS, FWACS, FICS

Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST and a General Surgeon. Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS), West Africa College of Surgeons (WACS) and the International College of Surgeons.

Member of Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and the International Surgical Society. Member of the Ghana Hernia Society and the Secretary of the Ghana Surgical Research Society.

Research interests include global surgery, injury prevention, and health systems strengthening. Has over 50 publications in peer-reviewed surgical journals. Reviews for several peer-reviewed journals and member of the editorial board, World Journal of Surgery.

About us

Kumasi Injury is a research collaboration between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi Ghana  and University of Washington (UW), Seattle USA. Its agenda is to strengthen injury control research in Ghana and West Africa. The program is solidly grounded on a history of collaboration in injury research, which started in 1995 and has received funding through Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA since 2006.

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