Dr. Felix Israel Demeno Konotey-Ahulu is Professor of Human Genetics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and was Consultant Physician, Genetic Counsellor in Sickle Cell & Other Haemoglobinopathies, Harley Street, London, from 1979 to 2016. Now 92 years old and based in Hertfordshire, England, Dr Felix Konotey-Ahulu’s name commands great respect in medical and academic circles internationally. He is also an author and musician.
Professor 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. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation Award for outstanding research in Sickle Cell Anaemia, the Guinness Award for Scientific Achievement in the Commonwealth, and the Gold Medal of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding contribution to knowledge in the Medical Sciences by a Ghanaian.
I have written about Dr. Felix Konotey-Ahulu in a number of my books, including the recent Conversations from the HillTop.
Read more about Dr. Konotey-Ahulu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Konotey-Ahulu
