Dr Kwabena Kusi-Mensah is a senior lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences (SMS), KNUST and a senior specialist psychiatrist and child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) professional at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana. He holds a Fellowship of the West Africa College of Physicians (WACP) and a Masters (with distinction) in CAMH from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he worked on developing culturally appropriate tools for assessing executive and adaptive functions for children in West Africa.

Dr Kusi-Mensah has a passion to see up-coming generations of young psychiatrists in Ghana flourish as world-class clinicians, administrators and academics who become though-leaders on the African continent, through robust mentorship, capacity building and career guidance. And in his roles as Training Coordinator for the WACP Psychiatry faculty (Ghana Chapter), Postgraduate Programmes coordinator (Behavioural Sciences) and Lead Clinician in his clinical department (KATH), he strives to nurture such young minds in Psychiatry. His vision is to see PAG grow into a world-class professional association that serves its members’ career development needs, advocates strongly for mental health locally, and fosters strong collaborations internationally.

Kwabena maintains an avid and active interest in mental health research, research capacity building and research governance. Currently, he is pursuing a postdoctoral research fellowship in Mood Disorders at the Mayo Clinic, USA, gaining advanced research skills in biological psychiatry using animal models and advanced genetic research methods, as he seeks to build on over 14 years’ experience in medical practice, and over 12 years in mental healthcare. Kwabena is a family man, the husband to his best friend Iyeyinka, and father to their two lovely girls.