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Prof. Gladys Amponsah
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She attended the University of Liverpool, England; the University of Ghana Medical School; Aburi Girls’ Secondary School; Presbyterian Middle Girls’ Boarding School, Agogo, Ashanti-Akim; and Grey Memorial Primary School, Accra.
Prof has teaching, examinership and administrative experience (local and international) spanning over 40 years. Many of her trained health professionals are now occupying important positions in Ghana and abroad.
Her academic life started at the University of Ghana before she moved to the University of Cape Coast, where she was the Vice Dean at the School of Medical Sciences. Among others, she has been Head of Department, BSc Anaesthesia Programme, School of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Ridge Hospital, Greater Accra Region; Acting Dean, University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences; Head of Department of Anaesthesia, Ghana Medical School; Senior Medical Officer of Health, Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong; Locum Consultant Anaesthetist, Hassleholm Hospital, Sweden; and Locum Senior House Officer, Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England.
Prof Amponsah has served on a number of boards and committees which include the Academic Board, University of Ghana; Board of Ghana Medical School; the Postgraduate & Research Committee, University of Ghana; Committee for drafting the Constitution for Ghana Surgical Society; elected to the Council of the Ghana Surgical Research Society; and Vice-President of the University of Ghana Medical School Alumni Association.
A Fellow of both the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) and the West African College of Surgeons, Prof Amponsah is a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicans and Surgeons and also belongs to the Royal College of Anaesthetists, United Kingdom; West African Congress of Societies of Anaesthesiologists; and the Ghana Surgical Research Society.
She has a number of scientific publications to her credit. Among them: Blood Sugar Concentrations in Children Undergoing Surgery under General Anaesthesia (West African Journal of Medicine); Perioperative Cardiac Monitoring (African Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care); and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children in Tuen Mun Hospital (African Journal of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care).
Hobbies: Prof Amponsah likes reading any literature that is interesting, especially ones bothering on medicine. She also enjoys listening to music and dancing, especially in Church.