Adwoa Pokua Boakye-Yiadom
The researcher's work centers on advancing care and health outcomes across multiple domains through innovative study designs and empirical evidence. Their focus includes improving infant development and preterm care by examining immediate mother-child interactions, ensuring survival of low birth weight infants, enhancing breastfeeding practices at both individual and organizational levels, developing assessment tools for diabetic foot ulcers, and advancing understanding of cardiac arrhythmias and their management, particularly in challenging clinical settings.
Faculty Biography
i am senior specialist doctor who is a paediatrician for the past 18 years. i work as a lecturer in child health department. school of medical sciences and Dentistry. i am a Fellow of west african college of physcians and member of the Ghana college of physicians. i have a certificate from the royal college of child health and paediatrics on neonatalogy. i am an external examiner for university of development studies in Tamale, ghana and also for capecoast teaching hospital physician assistant programme. my work involves teaching and clinical work for patients- newborns and young infants. i teach medical students , nurses and physician assistant students. over the past 5 years i have gained some reseach experience and some post graduate training. i was a clinical investigator for IKMC study by WHO, early initiation of breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
Infant Development and Preterm Care
Intrauterine Treatment of Fetal Supraventricular Tachycardia Complicated By Fetal Hydrops: Livebirth At Term
Open AccessImmediate skin-to-skin contact for low birth weight infants is safe in terms of cardiorespiratory stability in limited-resource settings
Open AccessTiming of initiation of breastfeeding and its determinants at a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Open AccessImmediate “Kangaroo Mother Care” and Survival of Infants with Low Birth Weight
Open AccessAmputation in a 17 year old Ghanaian with type 1 diabetes: A Case Report
Open AccessDepartment of Child Health
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology