Philemon Amooba is a lecturer at the Department of Nursing. I first qualified as a State Registered Nurse (SRN) in 2001 before attaining a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2007 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana’s second-largest university. I started my career as a clinical nurse at the Bolgatanga regional hospital in the Upper East Region from 2001 to 2003. After my first degree, I was recruited as a nursing tutor at the Health Assistants' (Clinical) Training School, Bolgatanga, now Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Zuarungu from 2007 and 2008. Later, I worked as a research nurse at the Kintampo Health Research Centre from 2008 to 2010 before pursuing MSc in Advanced Nursing at the University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK), with the support of a UoN ‘Developing Solutions’ scholarship and a scholarship from KNUST. It was at Nottingham that I identified my research interest in stroke under the guidance of Dr. Linda East, and since then I have never ceased wanting to continue research in the field of stroke care.