CME Schedule (2010)

Partnering for Life:
Advances in Medicine Continuing Medical Education Conference

September 20-23, 2010
(Travel dates: September 17-26)

Schedule

• MONDAY September 20
• TUESDAY September 21
• WEDNESDAY September 22
• THURSDAY September 23

Download printable version of this schedule (PDF format)

Co-Sponsored by:
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation
International Agency for Research on Cancer
World Gastroenterology Organization

Course Directors:
Arden L. Aylor, MD
Patrick Maison, MB ChB
Michael Opong-Kusi, MD
Ama Paintsil, MB ChB
Lewis R. Roberts, MB ChB, PhD

Schedule

MONDAY September 20

TUESDAY September 21

WEDNESDAY September 22

THURSDAY September 23

Please email Mr. Kwasi Afriyie at kafriyie@kathhsp.org to sign up for any of the workshops above. Spots are filled on a first come, first served basis.

Make checks payable to:
The Chief Executive
Attn: Prof. Ohene Adjei
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
P. O. Box 1934
Kumasi, Ghana
Phone: 03220-40912
Email: oadjei@kathhsp.org

Conference Faculty

1. Francis A. Abantanga, MD (Associate Professor of Surgery and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Head, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)
2. Ken E. K. Aboah, MB ChB (Consultant Urologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
3. Anicet K. Adoubi, MD (Cardiologist, Inst de Cardiologie d'Abidjan, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire)
4. Jeremie Agre, MD (Ophthalmologist, Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire)
5. Mopelola S. Akintorin, MD (Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
6. Abayomi E. Akintorin, MD (Pediatric Anesthesiologist, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
7. John H. Amuasi, BSc, MB ChB, MPH (Head, Research and Development Unit, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
8. Daniel Ansong, MD (Department of Child Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)
9. Alexander Asamoah, MD, PhD (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics – WCEC, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
10. Joseph Atinga, RDMS (Sonographer, Kumasi, Ghana)
11. Baffour Awuah, MB ChB, FCRADONC (Specialist Radiation Oncologist and Head of Department, Oncology Directorate, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
12. Augustina Badu-Peprah, MB ChB (Radiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
13. Ebrima Bah, MD (Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study, IARC, Gambia)
14. Juliane Bingener-Casey, MD (Associate Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
15. Haraldur Bjarnason, MD (Professor of Radiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
16. Alexander A. T. Boafo, MD, MPH, MBA, FACOG, FGCPS (Associate Professor of Clinical OB/GYN, Maternal Fetal Medicine Division, Department of OB/GYN, Montefiore North Hospital, Affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA)
17. Kofi Boahene, MD, FACS. (Assistant Professor, Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Minimally Invasive Skullbase Surgery, and Microvascular Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
18. Gabriel Boakye, MD (Department of Anesthesia, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
19. Tim Bongartz, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
20. Ugonna Chike-Obi, MD (Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine)
21. Francis D. Dickson, MD (Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Clinton, Maryland, USA)
22. Peter Donkor, MD (Provost, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana)
23. Ama Etse (Medical Student, Drexel University School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA)
24. Samuel N. Forjuoh, MB ChB, MPH, Dr. PH, MD (Professor & Director of Research, Department of Family Medicine, Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, Texas, USA)
25. Howard W. Francis, MD (Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery; Director, Johns Hopkins Human Temporal Bone Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
26. Violet Q. Habwe, MD (Nephrologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA)
27. LaTonya J. Hickson, MD (Assistant Professor and Consultant, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
28. Thomas C. Hoyle III, MD (Ophthalmologist, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA)
29. Abodo Jacko (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cote D’Ivoire)
30. Elizabeth Jolkovsky (Basic Life Support Trainer, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA)
31. Richard Jolkovsky, MD (Medical Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, Central Minnesota Heart Center, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA)
32. Charity A. Kankam MD (Teaching Faculty and Chief, Division of Nephrology, St. Vincent Charity Hospital; Medical Director, CDC Cityview Dialysis Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
33. Kwadwo A. Koram MB ChB, PhD (Head, Department of Epidemiology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana)
34. Isaac O. Koranteng, MB ChB, FWACS (Senior Specialist, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana)
35. Vincent Kouame, MD (Specialist in Internal Medicine and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Assistant Chief, Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Military Hospital, Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire)
36. Augustine Kwarshie, MB ChB (Tema General Hospital, Tema, Ghana)
37. Douglas R. LaBrecque MD (Professor and Director, Liver Service, University of Iowa Healthcare, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Treasurer, World Gastroenterology Organization)
38. Amelia E. Laing, MD, FACOG (Obstetrician /Gynecologist, Dunlap & Wooster Community Hospitals, Orrville & Wooster, Ohio, USA)
39. Conrad J. Lawrence, C.S.T. (Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
40. Erik Matey, PharmD (Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
41. Eileen Micah, MB ChB (Gastroenterologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
42. Cliff Missen, MA (Director, WiderNet Project, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA)
43. Douglas S. Morey (Certified Financial Planner, MTI Financial Advisors, Edina, Minnesota, USA)
44. Ndidiamaka L. Musa, MD (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
45. James E. Newcome, NREMT-P (Cardiac Life Support Education ACLS & PALS Program Coordinator, Gold Cross, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
46. Marci D. Newcome, BSN, RN, CCRN (Cardiovascular Surgery/Cardiothoracic Transplant Nurse; Cardiac Life Support Instructor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
47. Bernard Nkum, MD (Cardiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
48. Josephine Ocran BSc, MB ChB, MPH (Clinical Investigator, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana)
49. T. A. Odoi (Obstetrics and Gynecology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
50. Cyril S. Ofori, MD, FACC (Cardiologist, The Heart Group, Wooster, Ohio, USA)
51. David Ofori-Adjei, MB ChB, MRCP (UK), FWACP, FRCP Edin (Acting Rector, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Professor of Medicine, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra, Ghana; Editor-in-Chief, Ghana Medical Journal)
52. George Ofori-Amanfo, MD, (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cardiac Critical Care, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
53. Ebenezer Okyere, MD (Psychiatrist, Rouge Valley Health System, Toronto, Canada)
54. Emmanuel Abidemi Omonisi, MD (Dept. of Morbid Anatomy & Forensic Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria)
55. H. S. Opare-Addo (Obstetrics and Gynecology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
56. Ohene Opare-Sem, MB ChB, FACP (Directorate of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
57. Michael Opong Kusi, DO (Medical Director, Morton Comprehensive Health Services, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA)
58. Peter Osei-Bonsu, MD (Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
59. Francis Owusu, RN (Nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit, St. Marys Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
60. Isaac Owusu, MB ChB, FWACP (Cardiologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
61. Gyikua Plange-Rhule, MB ChB (Pediatrician, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)
62. Ann Polin, MSRS, RDMS, RDCS, RVT (Past Program Chair, Diagnostic Ultrasound Program, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, Washington. Currently Staff Sonographer at Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA)
63. Osei Bonsu Prempeh, MD, MPH (Ochsner Health System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
64. Kaye M. Reid Lombardo, MD (Assistant Professor of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,Minnesota, USA)
65. Lewis R. Roberts, MB ChB, PhD (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
66. Rosebud O. Roberts, MB ChB, MS (Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
67. Margie Smallman, RDCS (Echocardiographer, Echocardiography Laboratory, Wooster Community Hospital, Wooster, Ohio, USA)
68. Loring Stead (Podiatrist, Olmsted Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
69. F. Otis Stephen, MD (Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Small Bowel Imaging and Endoscopic Therapy, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Arizona, USA)
70. Luca Stocchi, MD (Colorectal Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
71. R. Thomas Tilbury, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
72. Brian Tommerdahl (Life Support Trainer, Champlin, Minnesota, USA)
73. Mary Alice Trapp, BSN (Trainer, Breast and Cervix Cancer Screening; Cancer Registry, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
74. Chinweike Ukomadu, MD, PhD (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
75. Thaddeus Ulzen, MD (Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, USA)
76. Yaw Amo Wiafe, RDMS (Sonographer, Kumasi, Ghana)
77. Priscilla Wobil, MB ChB (Pediatrician, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
78. Mary Yeboah-Afihene, MB ChB (Gastroenterologist, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana)

Conference Support Personnel

1. Liam Casey (Minimally Invasive Surgery Setup)
2. Padraic Casserly (Biomedical Engineer)
3. Richard Lien (Assistant Conference Administrator)
4. Carlo Lombardo (Public Relations)
5. Kimberly McGhee (Conference Schedule Coordinator)
6. Lowell Noreen (Conference Administrator; A/V Coordinator)
7. Tricia Noreen (Administrative Coordinator)
8. Tom Petersen (Africa Partners Medical)

Local Organizing Team

1. Richard Adanu (Africa Partners Medical – Ghana)
2. Professor Ohene Adjei (CEO, KATH)
3. Kwasi Afriyie (Administrative Manager – KATH)
4. Cudjoe Amenyah (Africa Partners Medical – Ghana)
5. Charles Antwi (Africa Partners Medical – Ghana)
6. Baffour Awuah (Medical Director, KATH)
7. Abraham Brew-Sam (Computer Laboratory Setup)
8. Kwame Frimpong (Public Relations Officer, KATH)
9. Yvonne Mawuko (Africa Partners Medical – Ghana)
10. Fred Mensah Acheampong (Head of Planning Unit, KATH)
11. Amerley Ollenu (Africa Partners Medical – Ghana)
12. Mary Yeboah-Afihene (Gastroenterologist, KATH)