Felix Konotey-Ahulu is one of the world's foremost experts on sickle-cell disease.
18 Facts About Felix Konotey-Ahulu
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Felix Israel Domeno Konotey-Ahulu was born in Odumase-Krobo, Gold Coast.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu went on to London University, where he read medicine.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu graduated with MB BS, Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, LRCP in 1959.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu went back to Ghana to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and University of Ghana Medical School as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu conducted research into Clinical Haemoglobinopathy and, together with Professors Bela Ringelhann, Hermann Lehmann, and others he discovered Haemoglobin Korle-Bu and Haemoglobin Osu-Christiansborg.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu was Physician Specialist at Korle-Bu Hospital and Ridge Hospital, Accra, and Director of the erstwhile Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu was Andrew N Schofield Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge, and in 1976 he gave Edinburgh University's MacArthur Postgraduate Lecture.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu did Grand Rounds at the NIH, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins, Howard University, Illinois and Chicago universities, and in Cook County Hospital, Chicago.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu was once editor of the Ghana Medical Journal, chairman of a Ghanaian Government Committee to Investigate Hospital Fees, member of the WHO Expert Committee Advisory Panel on Human Genetics, and a temporary consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat's Medical Department in London.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu is a former examiner at the University of Ghana Medical School.
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In June 1973, he was invited to join The World Council of Churches' Consultation on Genetics and Quality of Life, chaired by Dr Robert Edwards, and more than 30 years later Felix Konotey-Ahulu is still in contact with Bob Edwards through the Ethics Committee of the Cromwell Hospital, London, where Felix Konotey-Ahulu was Consultant Physician from 1983 to July 2005.
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Professor Felix Konotey-Ahulu is a Christian, plays the piano, and has written a Millennium Hymn of seven verses, complete with melody, entitled "Time Was Created", which the University of Cape Coast Choir sang after his inaugural address.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu is a staunch biblical creationist, and has ably defended Christianity in the Ghanaian Times and the British Medical Journal.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu's faith means that he is strongly anti-abortion, and has denounced genetic testing for sickle-cell disease with a view to aborting babies with the disease.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu has produced more than 200 publications, a number of which have become the definitive studies in their field.
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Professor Felix Konotey-Ahulu is the first person known to have traced hereditary disease in his forebears, generation by generation, with all names, right back to 1670 AD.
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Felix Konotey-Ahulu is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dr Martin Luther King Jr.