Priscilla Abrafi Opare-Addo, MD, MWACP
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Ghana
Dr. Priscilla Abrafi Opare-Addo is a Physician specialist, part-time lecturer and Neurology Fellow at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She received an MD from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She received her Membership in Internal Medicine from the West African College of Physicians and is currently a Neurology Fellowship-trainee with the same college. She received her MSCR from Medical University of South Carolina and is a PhD candidate in Molecular medicine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She is a Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease Research Training (S-CaRT)- Fogarty International Centre (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow and a TALENTS (Training Africans to Lead and Execute Neurological Trials & Studies) Program scholar. Dr. Abrafi is passionate about stroke prevention and improving patient outcomes through research. Her research interest is in stroke and vascular neurology, particularly the institution of strategies to improve disease outcomes through the implementation of recommended stroke interventions, systems of care and exploring the mechanisms of stroke risk among Africans including the role of genetic and epigenetic risk determinants in primordial, primary, and secondary stroke prevention. Priscilla currently serves on the planning committee of the African Stroke Organization (ASO).