Dr Peter Owusu Ndaa

Dr Peter Owusu Ndaa is a Lecturer at the Department of Occupational Therapy (OT), School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences (SBAHS), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. Peter is an experienced Occupational Therapist with over 10 years practising experience in the United Kingdom prior to taking up appointment in academia to coordinate a new BSc Occupational Therapy professional programme that was introduced by the SBAHS in 2010. He has helped to run the programme since its inception to date.

Peter holds PhD in Occupational Therapy from Coventry University, MSc in Occupational Therapy from Glasgow Caledonia University and BSc in Occupational Therapy from the Northumbria University all in the United Kingdom. He also has a PgDip in Strategic Management from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIMA-7, UK.
He is the Ghana representative to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT).
Peter serves as an academic consultant at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia and the Queen’s University, Canada. He is currently helping to set up a new Occupational Therapy programme in Ethiopia.

Aside his academia roles, Peter is passionate to seeing his clients in their maximum functional capability and to be able to participate meaningfully in activities of their choice.
Among his many researches in enabling independence, Peter has recently conducted a longitudinal phenomenological research into the first cohort of Ghanaian OT students’ professional identity development as they progressed through this new professional course programme.