Dr. Kwabena Kusi-Mensah
President
Kwabena is a Psychiatrist with additional training in child and adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) based in Kumasi, Ghana. His passion for children and adolescents’ mental health led him to expand one of the earliest multi-disciplinary CAMH clinics in Ghana in 2017, after returning from the Master’s programme at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Ibadan, Nigeria where he graduated top of his class. He also holds the fellowship of the West Africa College of Physicians in psychiatry.
Currently, Kwabena is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge where he is working on developing culturally appropriate tools for assessing executive and adaptive functioning for children and adolescents in West Africa, as well as risk factors affecting cognition and mental well-being.
Dr. Tolulope Bella-Awusah
Immediate Past President
| Tolulope Bella – Awusah is a lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine University of Ibadan, Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department University College Hospital Ibadan, and Acting Director, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Ibadan. She obtained her Medical degree from the University of Ibadan and Fellowship in Psychiatry from the West African College of Physicians. She works as a leader of multidisciplinary teams of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) professionals in the sectors of Health and Education. She is also the immediate past Vice President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). |
Dr Ronita Luke
Vice President
Ronita Luke is a paediatrician, child and adolescent mental health professional and lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Sierra Leone. She holds a masters in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians and a fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Sierra Leone.
Research interests include infant mental health and developmental disorders in children.
Mr. Mohammed James Koroma
Secretary General
Dr. Rita Frinue Tamambang
Assistant Secretary General I
Dr Ruth Charlotte Entsuah
Publicity Secretary/Assistant Secretary General II
Ruth Charlotte is a Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Professional based in Kumasi, Ghana. She works at the Psychiatry Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where she leads a multidisciplinary team in child and adolescent mental health and neurodevelopment. She has pioneered
novel interventions such as the formation of psychosocial caregiver and peer support groups across different paediatric care settings.
She had her Medical degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, a Master of Science degree in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from the University of Ibadan and is a Member of the Ghana and West African College of Physicians, Faculty of Psychiatry.
Her research interests include: developing collaborative care models for children with chronic illnesses, neurodevelopment, working with traumatized youths and building social capital for caregivers. Her passion is to contribute to optimal child and adolescent development and mental health across the
African region and beyond.
Dr. Haleem Abdurahman
Western Africa Regional Representative
Dr Peggy Asiedu-Ekremet
Treasurer
Dr. (Mrs) Peggy Asiedu Ekremet is Specialist Psychiatrist with the West African College of Physicians and the Ghana College of Physicians and surgeons. She works at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital and is very passionate about mental health, especially issues to do with children and adolescents.
Dr. Asiedu Ekremet obtained a first degree in Nutrition and Biochemistry from the University of Ghana and obtained her medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School. She also holds a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is sub specializing in Child Psychiatry.
She is involved in the training of medical students from University of Ghana, Family Health Medical School and Accra College of Medicine, during their psychiatry rotations. She also supervises Resident Doctors, Medical officers, House officers and Physician assistants in her team.
Dr Anusha Lachman
Southern Africa Regional Representative
Anusha Lachman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town and is a lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her clinical interests include adolescent neuropsychiatric illnesses, maternal and infant mental health and Paediatric Consultation Liaison psychiatry.
Her research involvement is in the field of Infant Mental Health, and she is the convenor of the MPHIL in Infant Mental Health Program at Stellenbosch University.
Dr. Joyce Nalugya
East Africa Regional Representative
Joyce Nalugya is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Mulago Hospital, Kampala Uganda. Joyce holds a Bachelor of Medicine and a Master of Medicine in Psychiatry from Makerere University. Joyce is the program director on the child and adolescent diploma training course offered at Mbarara University of Science and Technology and led the development of the first Ugandan Ministry of Health child and adolescent mental health policy guidelines in 2017. As a PhD scholar on the TREAT C-AUD project and NURTURE Fellow at Makerere University she focuses on identifying risk factors, age specific academic achievements, and screening of alcohol use by primary school age children.
Dr. Eman Gaber
Northern Africa Regional Representative
Dr. Cornelius Ani
Diasporan Representative
Cornelius is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK. His academic interests include the development of psychosocial mental health interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries, the interface between physical and mental health, and medical education.
Dr Ani played a key role in setting up the first postgraduate training programme in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in West Africa, and continues to actively support the programme. He provides mentorship for early career child and adolescent mental health professionals in Africa.
Dr Takoua Brahim
Early Career Professionals Representative
Takoua Brahim is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, in the university hospital of Monastir Tunisia. She is also an assistant professor at the university of Monastir. She is the vice secretary of the Tunisian Society of Child and adolescent psychiatry. Her researches’ interest are neurodevelopmental disorders and emotional regulation.