Dr. Yao Mfodwo is a medical and social enterpreneur who is determined to change the face of mental health in Ghana as well as usher in a new sense of professionalism and quality improvment into private medical practice in Ghana.

A product of the 1982 Achimota School year group, he proceeded to attend the University of Ghana Medical School where he qualified as a medical doctor in 1992. Dr. Mfodwo made up his mind fairly early in his medical career to specialize in the unfashionable field of psychiatry and immediately joined the late Professor Nii Ayi Turkson and his team at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital in 1993 after his internship.

A medical electve attachment at the University of Cape Town in September 1994 opened up new possibilities in the New South Africa. Dr. Mfodwo was given the opportunity to become the first black psychiatry registrar trainee at the previously all-white University of Stellenbosch in Cape Town by Professor Robin Emsley, the Head of Psychiatry at the time. Dr. Mfodwo started his psychiatry training in January 1995 and by September 1995 he had finished his Part One exams in record time considering that University of Stellenbosch was primarily an Afrikaans-speaking university. Dr. Mfodwo finished his psychiatry training in 1998 and proceeded to work in private practice in Eerste Rivier, a working class suburb of Cape Town while keeping his links with University of Stellenbosch through part-time research.

Dr. Mfodwo was poached by Pfizer South Africa in 2000 to work as their Product Physician for Neuroscience and Sexual Health and relocated from Cape Town to Johannesburg. During his time at Pfizer, Dr. Mfodwo got introduced to the fascinating world of drug development, pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials and marketing. Pfizer had an interesting portfolio and pipeline of drugs which included Viagra, Lipitor and Zoloft amongst others. Working with Pfizer involved a lot of travel and high level interaction with media, health professionals, governments and other corporates.

Dr Mfodwo left Pfizer in 2003 and went back into private practice. He was one of the founders of Crescent Clinic in Randburg, South Africa which has now grown into the very succesful Akeso Clinics Group. While in private practice Dr Mfodwo trained in Sleep Medicine and operated The Benoni Sleep Centre. He has provided psychiatric services to the Department of Correctional Services through Pretoria Prison and Moderbee Prisons since 2007. He also worked as a consultant psychiatrist to Disa Clinic, a sexual health clinic based in Sandton, South Africa.

He returned to Ghana in 2011 and started The Brain Clinic and the Tema Sleep Centre . The former has now transitioned to new purpose built faclities at Abokobi while the latter currently operating as the Tesano Sleep Centre while awaiting a collaboration with the London Sleep Centre as from April 2016.

Dr Mfodwo teaches part time at the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences and is on the faculty of the recently established Family Health Medical School and Accra College of Medicine.

Dr Mfodwo is a keen traditionalist and farmer. He is currently the Akyeamehene (Chief of All Linguists) of Akuapem Traditional Area and is actively involved in commercial cocoa farming. He is also a keen sports enthusiast and does a lot of swimming and aerobic exercises. He was the first team psychologist of the Senior Football Team,The Black Stars, during their first appearance and memorable World Cup campaign in Germany in 2006.

 

Profile of The Brain Clinic Ltd at Abokobi

The Brain Clinic started from Tema as The Brain Clinic and Tema Sleep Centre in August 2011.The purpose behind it was to introduce quality private mental healthcare to the middle to upper end of the Ghanaian market. It also afforded an opportunity to introduce the first fully-equipped sleep laboratory in Ghana. The Brain Clinic grew steadily despite internal and external challenges, in particular the energy crisis and the rapid depreciation of the Ghanaian cedi.

Despite these challenges The Brain Clinic has expanded to its present current permanent home in serene green Abokobi in the Ga East District. The bed capacity is twenty-four and we provide both outpatient and inpatient services. Our vision is to become the partner & provider of choice for mental & emotional health in the private sector in Ghana and in the process, transform the face of mental health care in Ghana by providing high quality care with dignity and respect.  

We are a team of psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in mental health, emotional health, sleep and sexual health.

The Sleep Centre has relocated to Tesano in Accra and provides 1^st class diagnosis and treatment. We are a currently discussing a collaboration with the London Sleep Centre in Harley Street which will enhance our quality offering as from 2016.

We have just launched a Sex Clinic which will focus on sexual problems in both males and females from a professional medical perspective and not from a moral perspective. In this endeavor we have established a collaboration with the DISA CLINIC, a sex clinic based in Sandton, Johannesburg.

We believe that as the need for our services grow we will be able to expand, and as and when neccessary branch out into other regions of the country.