Dr. Thomas O. Mensah Founder of Silicon Valley Of Ghana has met with four German Surgeons who are in Ghana on a week visit to Komfo Anokye Hospital.

The Team which is led by professor Mathias Richter-Tutur an Thoracic and Orthopedic Surgeon and Professor Helmut Friess Director of Surgery at TMU Munich will be working with the KNUST Dean of Medicine and physicians at Okomfo Anokye Hospital.

According to Dr. Thomas Mensah, Silicon Valley of Ghana Telemedicine Team will be working with TMU Munich Hospital to install a system which will allow Physicians in Munich Hospital in Germany and Okomfo Anokye Hospital through an online video, view and discuss cases in real time.

This Novel Telemedicine system is the first in West Africa and can be used in training Physicians in advanced Surgery too.

The Telemedicine System in Silicon Valley of Ghana is the brain Child of Dr. Thomas Mensah, one of the four global inventors of Fiber Optics.

His Telemedicine Team at Silicon Valley of Ghana is led by retired US Astronaut Bobby Satcher, PhD MIT, MD Harvard an Expert in Telemedicine from MD Anderson in Houston Texas.

Dr. Mensah who is focused on Modernization and Industrialization of Ghana is also interested in Capacity building in Technology and Medicine.

He recently trained 600 Students in Software from all over the country in a three day Hackathon with Hacklab at the Great Hall of KNUST during the Chancellors innovation Week.

Dr. Thomas Mensah attended KNUST and graduated in 1974. He delivered the prestigious RP Baffuor Lectures and received honorary Doctorate, D.SC Honoraris Causa from KNUST.

He has also received the Kwame Nkrumah African Genius Award in 2018, and many international Awards including the 2019 World Nanotechnology Commercialization Award in Dubai.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors USA, Fellow American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Fellow of Ghana Institution of Engineers and is the author of four books on innovation including Fiber Optics Engineering, Superconductor Engineering, The Right Stuff Comes in Black Too (Autobiography) and Nanotechnology Commercialization an International Text Book used to teach graduates in Universities all over the World.