Home
Home

Bamenla Quarm-Goka (MBChB, MRCP(UK), FWACP, FGCP)

Bamenla Quarm-Goka (MBChB, MRCP(UK), FWACP, FGCP)
Associate Professor/Head of Department
bqgoka@ug.edu.gh
+233 302665406 / +233 208163787

 

Professor Bamenla Goka is the Head and an Associate Professor of the Department of Child Health, School of Medicine & Dentistry. She is also Head and a Consultant General Paediatrician, Department of Child Health, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. She founded and leads the Paediatric Asthma Clinic in the Hospital. She was the Clinical coordinator for Malaria Research Project under the Accra-Copenhagen Research Link (ACRL) between University of Ghana and University of Copenhagen from 1998 to 2003, and is a member of the IeDEA Pediatric West African Database network, Ghana site, for research on paediatric HIV.

She serves on technical committees of National Malaria and National AIDS Control Programmes of the Ghana Health Service and was a former President of the Paediatric Society of Ghana.

 

Research Interests

Malaria, HIV, Asthma (in children)

 

Publications

  1. Bonnie Stevens, Ernestina Safoa Donkor, Bamenla Quarm Goka, Isaac Odame, Margrieta Langins, Shirine Riahi, Stephanie de Young, Dylan Walters, Celia Eliason, Bonnie Fleming-Carroll, Grace Barnes, Francis Victor Ekey, Pam Hubley, Felix Nyanteh, Eva Mensah, Ivy Sackey. Impact and sustainability of an accredited paediatric nursing training programme in Ghana. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2014; 4 (12):142-154. DOI: 10.5430/jnep.v4n12p142. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v4n12p142   Oct 2014
  2. Adjei O George, Goka Q Bamenla, Enweronu-Laryea C Christabel, Rodrigues P Onike, Renner  Lorna, Sulley M Abdul, Alifrangis  Michael, Khalil  Insaf, Kurtzhals A Jorgen. A randomized trial of artesunate-amodiaquine versus artemether-lumefantrine in Ghanaian paediatric sickle cell and non-sickle cell disease patients with acute uncomplicated malaria. Malaria Journal.2014, 13:369. DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-369. Available at  http://www.malariajournal.com/content/13/1/369
  3. Ballif, M.; Nhandu, V.; Wood, R.; Dusingize, J. C.; Carter, E. J.; Cortes, C. P.; McGowan, C. C.; Diero, L.; Graber, C.; Renner, L.; Hawerlander, D.; Kiertiburanakul, S.; Du, Q. T.; Sterling, T. R.; Egger, M.; Fenner, L.; for the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Detection and management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients: a survey in lower income countries The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2014; 18(11):1327–1336
  4. Oliver Barry, Jonathan Powell, Lorna Renner, Evelyn Y Bonney, Meghan Prin, William Ampofo, Jonas Kusah, Bamenla Goka, Kwamena WC Sagoe, Veronika Shabanova, Elijah Paintsil. Effectiveness of first-line antiretroviral therapy and correlates of longitudinal changes in CD4 and viral load among HIV-infected children in Ghana. BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:476. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/13/476
  5. George O. Adjei, Bamenla Q. Goka, Emmanuel Kitcher, Onike P. Rodrigues, Ebenezer Badoe,  Jorgen A. L. Kurtzhals. Reversible Audiometric Threshold Changes in Children with Uncomplicated Malaria. Journal of Tropical Medicine Volume 2013, Article ID 360540, 8 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/360540   
  6. Renner L, Prin M, Li FY, Goka B, Northrup V, Paintsil E Time to and Predictors of CD4+ T-Lymphocytes Recovery in HIV-Infected Children Initiating Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Ghana. AIDS Res Treat. 2011;2011:896040. Epub 2011 May 11
  7. Essuman VA, Ntim-Amponsah CT, Astrup BS, Adjei GO, Kurtzhals JA, Ndanu TA, Goka B. Retinopathy in severe malaria in Ghanaian children--overlap between fundus changes in cerebral and non-cerebral malaria. Malar J. 2010 Aug 12;9:232.
  8. Adjei GO, Goka BQ, Binka F, Kurtzhals JA. Artemether-lumefantrine: an oral antimalarial for uncomplicated malaria in children. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2009 Aug;7(6):669-81. Review.
  9. Gyan B, Goka BQ, Adjei GO, Tetteh JK, Kusi KA, Aikins A, Dodoo D, Lesser ML, Sison CP, Das S, Howard ME, Milbank E, Fischer K, Rafii S, Jin D, Golightly LM. Cerebral Malaria Is Associated with Low Levels of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in African Children. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Apr;80(4):541-6.
  10. KIDS-ART-LINC Collaboration. Low Risk of Death, but substantial program attrition in Paediatric HIV treatment cohorts in Sub-Saharan Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2008;49(5):523-31
  11. Adjei GO, Kurtzhals JAL, Rodrigues OP, Alifrangis M, Hoegberg LCG, Kitcher ED, Badoe EV, Lamptey R, Goka BQ. Amodiaquine-artesunate vs artemether-lumefantrine for uncomplicated malaria in Ghanaian children: a randomized efficacy and safety trial with one year follow-up. Malar J 2008, 7:127 (11 July 2008). Article is available at: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/1/127
  12. Helegbe GK, Goka BQ, Kurtzhals JA, Addae MM, Ollaga E, Tetteh K, Dodoo D, Ofori MF, Obeng-Adjei G, Hirayama K, Awandare GA, Akanmori BD. Complement activation in Ghanaian children with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Malar J. 2007, 6:165 (Dec 17 2007). Article is available at: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/165
  13. Adjei GO, Goka BQ, Kurtzhals JA. Neurotoxicity of artemisinin derivatives. Clin Infect Dis. 2006 Dec 15;43(12):1618
  14. Awandare GA, Goka B, Boeuf P, Tetteh JK, Kurtzhals JA, Behr C, Akanmori BD. Increased levels of inflammatory mediators in children with severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria with respiratory distress. J Infect Dis. 2006 Nov 15;194(10):1438-46.  Epub 2006 Oct 10.
  15. Helleberg M, Goka BQ, Akanmori BD, Obeng-Adjei G, Rodrigues O, Kurtzhals JAL. Bone marrow suppression and severe anaemia associated with persistent Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children with microscopically undetectable parasitaemia. Malaria J 2005; 4:56 (01 Dec 2005)
  16. Goka BQ, Hesse IFA, Oliver-Commey JO. The characteristics, knowledge, beliefs and practices of parent/guardians of children with asthma in Accra, Ghana. Ghana Med J 2004;38(3):109-115
  17. Goka BQ, Hesse IFA, Oliver-Commey JO. Clinical audit of management of asthma in children at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Ghana Med J 2003; 37(3):122-127.
  18. Goka BQ, Rodrigues OP, Adjei GO, Quarshie B, Akanmori BD, Kurtzhals JAL, Neequaye, J. Comparison of chloroquine with Quinimax® in the treatment of cerebral malaria inGhanaian children. Ghana Med J 2003; 37(3):110-116.
  19. Gyan B, Goka B, Cvetkovic JT, Perlmann H, Lefvert AK, Akanmori B, Troye- Blomberg M. Polymorphisms in interleukin-1 beta and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist genes and malaria in Ghanaian children. Scand J Immunol 2002;56(6);619-22.
  20. Kurtzhals J A L, Goka BQ, Akanmori B D, Hviid L. The Importance of Strict Patient Definitions In Studies of Malaria Pathogenesis Trends Parasitol. 2001; 17(7): 313-4.
  21. Goka BQ,  Kwarko H,  Kurtzhals J A L, Gyan B,  Ofori- Adjei E,  Ohene SA, Hviid L, Akanmori B D, Neequaye J. Complement binding to erythrocytes is associated with macrophage activation and reduced haemoglobin in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Trans Roy Soc Trop Med Hyg 2001; 95:545-549.
  22. Goka BQ, Adabayeri V, Ofori- Adjei E,  Quarshie B,  Asare-Odei G, Akanmori B D,  Kurtzhals J A, Ofori-Adjei D. Neequaye J. Comparison of Chloroquine with Artesunate in the treatment of Cerebral Malaria in Ghanaian children. J Trop Ped 2001; 47:165-169. Voted as paper of the month by editorial board.
  23. Quaye I K E, Ekuban F A, Goka B Q, Adabayeri V, Kurtzhals JAL,    Gyan B, Ankrah N, Hviid L, Akanmori B D. Haptoglobin 1-1 is associated with susceptibility to severe plasmodium falciparum malaria. Trans Roy Soc Trop Med  Hyg 2000; 94:216-219.
  24. Neequaye J, Prempeh O B, Ofori-Adjei E, Goka BQ, Quarshie B,  Kurtzhals JAL, Ofori-Adjei D. Oral Chloroquine in the treatment of Cerebral Malaria  in Ghanaian children. Ghana Med J 2000;34: (2):64-66.
  25. Kurtzhals JAL, Adabayeri V, Goka BQ, Akanmori BD, Oliver-   Commey J, Nkrumah FK, Behr C, Hviid L . Low plasma concentrations of interleukin 10 in severe malarial anaemia compared with cerebral and uncomplicated malaria.  Lancet 1998; 351: 1768- 1772.
  26. Hviid L, Kurtzhals JAL, Goka BQ. Oliver-Commey J, Nkrumah FK, Theander TG. Rapid Re-emergence of T cells into Peripheral Circulation Following Treatment of Severe and Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria. Infection and Immunity 1997; 65(10): 4090 - 4093.