Prof. Alex Kwame Owusu-Ofori

Prof. Alex Kwame Owusu-Ofori

Dept. of Clinical Microbiology

I currently spend my time in academia lecturing clinical microbiology to a wide range of students including Medical, Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Imaging, Medical Laboaratory and Physician assistant students. I have been supervising undergraduate and post graduates, including masters and PhD students. The core areas that I worked in with my recent PhD and masters students include Nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the community and among sickle cell patients attending their clinic and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus where I evaluated carriage rates among healthworkers and patients and the disease burden of MRSA.  Epidemiology of Extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producing Gram negative organisms is another area that I have worked diligently over the past few years.