Dr. Collins Kokuro

President

Dr Collins Kokuro is a Senior Specialist Physician at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine. He is a Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and also the Deputy Training Coordinator in Internal Medicine for the West African College of Physician- Ghana Chapter. He is involved in the teaching of resident medical officers, medical students and other health workers.

Dr Kokuro provides services in General Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He is an expert in both routine and mbulatory Electrocardiograhy and Echocardiography and has advance training in abdominal ultrasonography.
He earned his BSc Human Biology and MB.ChB in Medicine from the School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana in the year 2000 AND 2004 respectively. He became a member of the West African College of Physicians in 2009 and completed the fellowship program of the college in Internal Medicine in 2013. He then did a fellowship observation in Cardiology at the University of Utah, School of Medicine, Division of cardiology. He holds a postgraduate diploma in Project Design and Management (DPDM) from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Dr Kokuro was a co-investigator and associate director of the Ashanti ProCol project to improve cardiovascular health among health workers in Ghana. His main area of interest is in cardiovascular disease, cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension. He is a member of the Essential Vascular Care Guidelines Study Group.

Dr Kokuro has been a facilitator in many local and international conferences/meetings with exciting presentations in the area of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. He is affiliated to the European Society of Cardiology, World Heart Federation, West African College of Physicians, International Federation of Health Promotion and Education, Ghana Medical Association and the Methodist Medical Association of Ghana. Dr Kokuro has provided a number of consultancy services, as an expert in hypertension and cardiometabolic diseases, to a number of pharmaceutical giants in Ghana and West Africa and has also served on a number of Advisory Boards.

He is involved in community and volunteering work with special interest in community education of hypertension, obesity and cardiovascular diseases in general.

Dr Kokuro is married with three children.