Prof Yao Tettey MBChB, DCP, FWACP, FGCPS, FRCP

Professor Yao Tettey is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana and a Consultant Pathologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra Ghana. He graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School, Accra with a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MB.CHB). He also had a Diploma in Clinical Pathology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London.

He is a Fellow of West African College of Physicians, a Foundation Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Fellow of Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Tettey is a member of a number of professional bodies, including Ghana Medical Association, Association of Clinical Pathologists - Britain, West African Division of the International Academy of Pathologists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Brighton Collaboration.

His professional interest includes General Pathology, Perinatal, Neonatal and Pediatric Pathology, Pathology of the female genital system including breast diseases; Male infertility in Ghana; diseases of the Prostate and Medical Audit.

Prof. Tettey was the Head of the Department of Pathology (2002-2007), Vice Dean and Dean of the University of Ghana Medical School (2008 – 2012, and Provost of the College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana (2013 – 2016). He is a member of many committees of the University of Ghana, University of Ghana Medical School, Ministry of Health, Ghana, West African College of Physicians, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana.

Prof. Tettey has received a lot of professional honours and recognitions from the Ghana Medical Students Association, Best Teacher Award from by the University of Ghana and Gold Medal award from the West African College of Physicians.

He has attended several national and international conferences and workshops where he played key roles, presented papers, posters, and research findings. He has over 80 publications which includes:

• Hurwitz LM, Yeboah ED, Biritwum RB, Adjei AA, Yao Tettey et al. Overall and abdominal obesity and prostate cancer risk in a West African population: An analysis of the Ghana Prostate Study. Int J Cancer 2020 ; 1-8. doi.org HYPERLINK "http://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33026"/10.1002/ijc.33026

• Gouveia HM, …….. Reynolds SJ, Biritwum BR, Adjei AA, Tettey Y, Tay E et al. Genetic signatures of gene flow and malaria-driven natural selection in Sub Saharan Populations of the “endemic Burkitt Lymphoma belt” PLoS Genet 2019, 15(3): e 1008027. EPUB 2019 March, 8.

• Adler C, Friesen MC, Yeboah ED, Tettey Y et al. Usual adult occupation and risk of Prostate Cancer: Two novel Susceptibility genes in West African Men: The Ghana Prostate Studies. Occup Environ Med 2019 Feb 7; 76(2):71-77. EPUB 2018 December 7

• Zhou KC, Young D, Yeboah ED, Coburn SB, Tettey Y et al. TMPRSS2: ERG Gene Fusion in prostate cancer of West African men and a meta-analysis of racial difference. American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol.186, issue 12, 1352-1361

• Carpline A, ……. Okine J, Okyne V, Rockson I, Tay E, Tettey Y et al. Development, Evaluation and Implementation of a Pan African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate. J. GWB Oncol 2018 Sep: 4, 1-14.

• Aleksenko L, Tettey Y, Gyasi R, Obed S et al. Maternal demographics and placental risk factors in term low birth weight in Ghana. Pregnancy and Child Health. 2017; 4(3)

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