Dr. Felix Boakye-Agyeman M.D. Ph.D., has a unique background in medicine, clinical pharmacology, laboratory medicine and public health. He is presently the Director for Pharmacometrics, Integrated Drug Development at Certara and Clinical Pharmacology/Pharmacometric consultant at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) in Durham, NC. Felix has designed dosing regimens in medications for several indications and populations at all stages of drug development, for several populations especially in pediatrics using modelling and simulations.
Felix was born in Ghana and has been going back to Ghana to help train physicians and other allied health personnel. He has helped provide comprehensive updates in clinical medicine through didactic teaching on a broad range of the most preventable and prevalent diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. He has lectured and helped run several workshops in Ghana through conferences and trainings organized by the Africa Partners Medical.
At the public health front, Felix has been a consultant for malaria surveillance looking at both primary and secondary prevention especially with counterfeit malaria medication. He has worked to empower African medical personnel to improve the health of Africans and provide equality of medical care in order to prevent needless deaths. As a medical clerkship trainee and Intern at Emory University, Felix helped in the management HIV patients and high risk populations. This included surveillance, lab work, community advocacy and education of high risk populations. He serves on the board of Africa partners medical, his passion is to end needless death in Africa.