AREA OF INTEREST

AREA OF SPECIALTY

• Safe Motherhood
• Comprehensive Abortion Care
• Reconstruction of Ambiguous Genitalia
• Family Planning

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Safe Motherhood
• Comprehensive Abortion Care
• Family Planning

INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

• West African Postgraduate Medical College
• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

QUALIFICATIONS

• FGCS
• FWACP
• MBChB
• BSc

EMPLOYMENT & POSITION HELD/HOLD

• Associate Professor, August 2011-date
• Senior Lecturer, October 2006-July 2011
• Lecturer, October 2001-September 2006

ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS

• Fellow, Ghana College of Surgeons
• Fellow, West African College of Surgeons
• Member, Ghana Medical Association

HONOURS, AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

PROFESSIONAL / TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, August 2011-date
• Senior Lecturer, October 2006-July 2011
• Lecturer, October 2001-September 2006

PUBLICATIONS

• Dassah ET, Odoi AT, Opoku, Baafuor Kofi. Stillbirths and very low Apgar Scores among vaginal births in a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth 2014, 14: doi:10.1186/1471-2393-14-289 
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• Opoku Baafuor Kofi. Unexplained Gross Haematuria in Pregnancy: a case report. Res J of Women’ Health. 2014; 1:1. 
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• Opoku Baafuor K, Nguah S.B, Azanu W (2013). Ectopic pregnancies: are fair-colored women at increased risk? Gynecology April doi: 10.7243/2052-6210-1-1 
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• Opoku Baafuor (2012). Contraceptive Preferences of Post-abortion patients in Ghana. J Women’ Health Care 1: 109. doi: 10.4172/2167-0420. 1000109 
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• Opoku Baafuor, Kwaununu Fauster (2011). Knowledge and Practices of Emergency Contraception among Ghanaian Women. African Journal of Reproductive Health - June 2011; 15(2): 147 
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• Olivia Tulloch, Philippe Mayaud, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Baafuor Opoku, Nana Lithur, et al. (2011). Using research to influence sexual and reproductive health practice and implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study analysis. Health Research Policy and Systems 9 (suppl 1): S10 
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• Feldblum P.J, Halpern V, Lie C, Obunge O, Ogunsola F, Ampofo W, Opoku B. Kofi (2011). What Predicts Non-Retention in Microbicide Trials?—Contemp Clin Trials, doi 10.1016/j.cc.t 2011.03.008 
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• Wilm Quentin, Adu-Sarkodie Y, Fern Terris-Presholt, Rosa Legood, Opoku Baafuor K, Philippe Mayaud (2011). Costs of cervical cancer screening and treatment using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and cryotherapy in Ghana: the importance of scale. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 16; 3: 379-398 
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• Opoku Baafuor (2010). Contraceptive Use among at-risk women in a metropolitan area in Ghana. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 89: 1105-1107 
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• Dassah, E.T, Odoi, A.T and Opoku, Baafuor K (2009). Advanced twin abdominal pregnancy: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 88; 11: 1-3 
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• Peterson L, Nanda K, Opoku BK, Ampofo WK, Owusu-Amoako M, et al (2007). SAVVY (C31G) Gel for prevention of HIV infection in Women: a Phase 3, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial in Ghana. PLoS ONE 2(12): e 1312. doi: 10. 137 
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• Adu-Sarkodie Y, Opoku BK, Crucitti T, Weiss HA, Mabey D (2007). Lack of evidence for the involvement of rectal and oral trichomonads in the aetiology of vaginal trichomoniasis in Ghana. Sex Transm Infect.;83: 130-132 
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• Adu-Sarkodie Y, Opoku BK, Danso KA, Weiss HA, Mabey D (2004). Comparison of latex agglutination, wet preparation, and culture for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis. Sex Transm Infect 80;201-203 
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• Opoku Baafuor K, Djokoto R, Owusu-Bempah A, Amo-Antwi K (2011). Huge Abdominal Mass secondary to a transverse vaginal septum and cervical dysgenesis. Ghana Med J. 45; 4 
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• Opoku Baafuor, Adu-Sarkodie Y (2010). Prevalence of Genital gonococcal and chlamydial infections in at-risk women in the Kumasi metropolis, Ghana. Ghana Med Journal, 44; 1: 21-24 
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• Opoku BK (2007). Prophylactic antibiotic during Caesarean sections at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi. Ghana Medical Journal 41; 2: 50-53 
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• Opoku BK (2006). A review of vacuum deliveries at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital , Ghana Medical Journal 40; 1: 14-17 
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• Opoku BK, Sengretsi Seth (2002). Norplant, a long term contraceptive: Is it serving the purpose? Ghana Medical Journal 36; 3.77 
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