• Courtesy of the Directorate of International Relations and Advancement (DIRA) led by #Developer Prof. Courage Saba, we bring you this week’s uds@30 Alumni Profile
  • Profiled today is Dr. Nina Wanye Tiertoore (Angkosaala)
  • Enjoy the read below as scripted by the DIRA.

Developer of the week by DIRA

  • UDS@30 ALUMNI PROFILING SERIES
  • The Developer of the Week
  • Name: Dr. Nina Wanye Tiertoore (Angkosaala)
  • Programme of study at UDS: BSc. in Human Biology, MBChB
  • Campus: Nyankpala
  • Current status: Head of Eye Unit, Tamale Central Hospital.

“The Third Trimester Field Practical Programme (TTFPP) which started in her first year 2002 saw her group lived in the Tanina Community in the Upper West Region of Ghana. This enabled her and her group to conduct a research which not only unearthed the community needs but made relevant recommendations for the development of the community.”

Dr. Nina Wanye Tiertoore (Angkosaala)

Congratulations Developer Nina !!!

Please read his profile below.

Dr. Tiertoore is an Ophthalmologist and an Entrepreneur. She has over thirteen years experience as a Medical Doctor with four years as an Ophthalmologist. She is the Head of the Eye Unit at the Tamale Central Hospital in the Northern Region of Ghana and one of the Ophthalmologists in the surgical eye team of the Northern Eye Services. This team with sponsorship from Vision First Programme and under the auspices of the Swiss Red Programme delivers free eye surgeries at the doorsteps of poor rural community members who have no access to an Ophthalmologist.

As an Entrepreneur, Dr. Tiertoore is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DEMAP Eye Consult. DEMAP Eye Consult is a team of eye care professionals based in Tamale, Ghana with the mandate of improving lives through comprehensive eye care including the provision of free eye screening for the people of Tamale Metropolis and its environs. The vision is to expand to other regions in the country in the near future.

According to her, UDS provided the right environment for her journey to become a Medical Doctor and an Ophthalmologist. During her second year in Medical School in UDS, she met her mentor, Dr. Wanye who taught her head and neck anatomy and from that day on, what would become a “mentor-mentee” relationship ensued.

The Third Trimester Field Practical Programme (TTFPP) which started in her first year 2002 saw her group lived in the Tanina Community in the Upper West Region of Ghana. This enabled her and her group to conduct a research which not only unearthed the community needs but made relevant recommendations for the development of the community. This relevant discipline instilled in her in UDS to be able to live and work with people in diverse environments made it easy for her to ask to be transferred from the comforts of Achimota Hospital located in Accra, the capital city of Ghana to Chereponi Government Hospital in Northern Ghana when she learned that the hospital did not have a Medical Doctor in 2011. During her four years of work in Chereponi, she was the only female Medical Superintendent in the then Northern Region in Ghana Health Service. Her passion for Ophthalmology heightened upon seeing the huge impact her mentor who had visited her hospital to conduct eye surgeries had made in the lives of people. In pursuance of this passion Dr. Tiertoore pursued her membership in Ophthalmology at the Ghana College of Physician and Surgeons in 2015 sponsored by the Swiss Red Cross.

For her, there was no better place to pursue a Master of Public Health programme than UDS. From its wide range of taught, practical and research provoking modules, it has provided her with the foundation, which guides and drives her practice towards an evidence-based trajectory. As part of utilizing the knowledge and skills gained from the MPH programme, she applies the principles from Preventive Medicine to her eye health promotion exercises through free eye screening in Tamale metropolis which is an ongoing success. With special interest in Glaucoma, preparation for the application of Geographic information systems to comprehensive Glaucoma care in Northern Ghana and beyond is underway.

Dr. Tiertoore is an International Clinical Fellow in waiting at the Queen Margaret and Victoria Hospitals under the hand of the NHS Education Fund (Fife). She has been sponsored by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) to the GMC (General Medical Council) with a license to practice in the UK following a selection from a worldwide search in 2021. In collaboration with her oversees and UK sponsors she looks forward to finding a more holistic approach to the care of Glaucoma patients in Northern Ghana and beyond.

To my young generation in school, UDS has what it takes to bring out the best in you. Apply yourselves, be willing to be trained and the sky will be your stepping stone.

I say, “From UDS to the world!”