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Dr. Thelma Ohene-Agyei

Address:                      Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.

Email:                          tohene-agyei@ug.edu.gh@ug.edu.gh 

ORCID:                      https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9086-1394

PubMed:                     https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=THELMA+OHENE-agyei

Research Gate:            https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thelma-Ohene-Agyei

Google Scholar:          https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=yXfRZWAAAAAJ

 

Biography 

Thelma Ohene-Agyei is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy at University of Ghana. Thelma has a Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree and a M. Phil Degree in Pharmacology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, UK. 

She teaches Clinical Pharmacy and pharmacology courses in the School of Pharmacy and the Department of Psychology.

Research focus

Infectious diseases & Antimicrobial Resistance

My major research interest covers the development, assessment and optimization of pharmacotherapeutic strategies for the management of infectious diseases. These include the development, use and monitoring of ideal antimicrobial regimens as well as complementary and alternative medicine to address antimicrobial resistance in patient care. 

Pharmacists in Chronic disease management 

The role of the pharmacists in chronic disease management in different primary health care settings including the hospital and community pharmacy. Here, my focus is on evaluating the impact pharmacists have on patient care in improving individual and public health outcomes in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, HIV/AIDs. 

Innovations in Pharmacy education and practice. 

My other research interests include the use of digital health technology and online drug information resources by both healthcare professionals and the public, as well as the historical and current innovative developments in pharmacy education. 

Publications

  1. Kretchy, I. A., Koduah, A., Opuni, K. F., Agyabeng, K., Ohene‐Agyei, T., Boafo, E. A., & Ntow, P. O. (2020). Prevalence, patterns and beliefs about use of herbal medicinal products in Ghana: A multi‐center community‐based cross‐sectional study. Tropical Medicine & International Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13541
  2. Koduah, A., Kretchy, I., Sekyi-Brown, R., Asiedu-Danso, M., Ohene-Agyei, T., & Duwiejua, M. (2020). Education of pharmacists in Ghana: evolving curriculum, context and practice in the journey from dispensing certificate to Doctor of pharmacy certificate. BMC Medical Education, 20(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02393-x
  3. Kretchy, I.A., Koduah, A., Ohene-Agyei, T., Boima, V., & Appiah, B. (2020). The Association between Diabetes-Related Distress and Medication Adherence in Adult Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4760624
  4. Mbaye, R., Gebeyehu, R., Hossmann, S., Mbarga, N., Bih-Neh, E., Eteki, L., Ohene-Agyei, T., ... & Haberer, J. (2019). Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980–2016. BMJ global health, 4(5), e001855. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001855
  5. Venter, H., Mowla, R., ​Ohene-Agyei, T​., & Ma, S. (2015): RND-type drug efflux pumps from Gram-negative bacteria: molecular mechanism and inhibition. ​Frontiers in Microbiology ​6 (377)   https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00377
  6. Ohene-Agyei, T.​, Mowla, R., Rahman, T., & Venter, H. (2014): Phytochemicals increase the antibacterial activity of antibiotics by acting on a drug efflux. ​Open Microbiology 3(6): 885-896.  https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.212
  7. Luisi, B., Du, D., Wang, Z., James, N., Voss, J., Klimont, E., Chiu, W., Ohene-Agyei, T.,​ & Venter, H. (2014):​ The structure of a​complete multidrug efflux pump.​Structure of the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump. Nature​ (509): 512-515. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13205
  8. Ohene-Agyei​, T., Lea, J., Venter, H. (2012): Mutations in MexB that affect the efflux of antibiotics with cytoplasmic targets. ​FEMS Microbiology Letters333 (1): 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02594.x