Frimpong-Manso Addo

Faculty Biography

Dr Frimpong-Manso Addo is a Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences of the School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD) in the College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He is a renowned Consultant Psychiatrist with oversight responsibility primarily, for the teaching of psychiatry to the clinical year medical and dental students of the School of Medicine and Dentistry and Physician Assistantship students of SMD. As an experienced psychiatrist and teacher who is mindful of transcultural and stigma issues around psychiatry, he has an exceptional interest in making psychiatry an interesting and important aspect of the training programme for medical students and those training in the allied health Sciences with the aim of making psychiatry popular and enjoyable to health professionals.Dr Addo is also a Consultant Psychiatrist in the KNUST Hospital where he provides high standard service in the form of psychiatric care to the staff and student population of KNUST. His passion for this responsibility since 2013, has significantly improved and guaranteed the mental wellbeing of the University population and also the population in its immediate neighbourhood. This has helped KNUST to achieve the well-being of its staff and students; one of the university’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).Dr Addo received his MBChB degree from the University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS) in 1989, Diploma in Psychological Medicine (Dublin) in 2003 and Member of the Royal College of Psychiatry, UK, in 2007. He is a member of the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana and also the Psychiatrists Association in Ghana. He is a staunch member of the SMD Students’ Counselling and Mentorship Committees. He worked in various subspecialties of psychiatry in the UK and showed special interest in Community Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry in Bristol where he taught medical students in the Assertive Outreach Model of treating disengaging psychiatric patients as a service to Southmead Hospital and Bristol University in the UK.As an outstanding clinician and tutor with rich experience from the UK, Dr Addo relocated to KNUST as a Lecturer in September 2012. He has since been at the forefront of the training of Resident Psychiatric trainees for the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons after successfully advocating for accreditation of the Psychiatric Directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to train these doctors. He is also a Consultant Psychiatrist in this Directorate.Dr Addo has a special research interest in transcultural, addiction, organic and treatment-resistant psychiatry and has collaborated with his departmental colleagues to research various topics in these which have been archived in the KNUST Research Repository. He has also collaborated with researchers in Hong Kong and the Middle East to publish various research works. He is currently researching into students’ mental health at KNUST and has won a grant from the Office for Grant and Research (OGR) at KNUST for this.  He has attended several national international conferences including Drug Abuse Prevention in Puerto Rico and several states in the USA.