Stephen Wemakor

Stephen was born and raised in Ghana, where he attendedmedical school at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He developed his love of psychiatry while working as a medical officer at the Psychiatry Unit of the KomfoAnokyeTeaching Hospital and completed psychiatry residency with the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed the first two years of psychiatry residency in the United States at the University of Michigan and transferred to Yale to be closer to family. Stephen maintains connections with the mental health fraternity in Ghana and continues to volunteer his time to contribute to the field back home. He is interested in research, especially those pertinent to improving mental health data and outcomes in low-and middle-income countries. He has collaborated to assess the prevalence of mental health disorders among primary school children in Ghana and has also worked on projects to assess the validity of assessment tools used to evaluate executive function among children in low-and middle-income countries. Stephen believes that technology can be utilized to address some of the challenges faced in psychiatry and is especially interested in leveraging low-cost technology to address the mental health treatment gap in resource-poor settings. He hopes to pursue a career in Consultation-Liaison psychiatry as he loves the collaborative role it plays between psychiatry and non-psychiatric specialties. Outside medicine, he enjoys soccer, reading and dabbling in mobile photography.