Prof. Vincent Boima BSc, MBChB, MPH, Cert Nephrology (SA), ISN Fellow, FWACP, FGCP, CaRT Fellow

Prof. Vincent Boima is an Associate Professor at the University of Ghana Medical School and a Consultant Nephrologist at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. He serves as Head of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and leads the Renal Unit within the department. He has represented the University of Ghana Medical School on the College of Health Sciences Academic Board and serves on the Africa Regional Board of the International Society of Nephrology.

He is a Fellow of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, the West African College of Physicians, the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the International Society of Nephrology. His professional memberships include the South African Renal Society and the American Society of Nephrology. He also serves as Secretary of the Ghana Kidney Association and of the Ghana Chapter of the Internal Medicine Faculty of the West African College of Physicians. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health.

Prof. Boima’s research focuses on the psychological well-being of people living with chronic kidney disease alongside the genetics and prevention of kidney disease. He has authored more than forty publications in peer-reviewed journals, with contributions that have advanced understanding of non-communicable diseases and mental health in the Ghanaian and wider African context; these data provide a baseline for future prospective and interventional studies evaluating the impact of psychological distress among patients with chronic diseases.

He is principal and co-principal investigator on University of Ghana ORID grants UGRF/8/SF-015/2014-2015 and URF/7/ILG-029/2013-2014, with outputs published in the Journal of Clinical Transplantation and the Journal of the African Association of Nephrology, and an additional manuscript accepted in Transplantation Proceedings. He also serves as co-investigator on other ORID projects and plays an active role in their day-to-day management. Beyond these, he is a co-investigator and Co-PI within the H3-Africa Kidney Disease Network, sponsored by the NIH and Wellcome Trust, contributing to multi-country research on genetic predisposition to chronic kidney disease—including work on APOL1 (G1/G2) variants—and to the design and execution of large collaborative studies that build genomic and clinical research capacity across sub-Saharan Africa.

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