Edwin Nii Amalai Adom

Background

Adom, Edwin Nii Amalai was born on January 12, 1941 in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. Son of Isaac Quaye and Julianna Adorkor (Brown) Adom. came to the United States, 1960.

Education

Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania, 1963; Doctor of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1968; FRSH (England), Royal Society Health, 1974.

Career

Intern, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1968-1969; resident in psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson U. Medical Center, Philadelphia, 1969-1972; clinical assistant professor psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, Philadelphia, since 1972; consultant psychiatrist, St. Joseph Hospital, Philadelphia, 1976-1980; consultant psychiatrist, Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, Philadelphia, 1976-1985; consultant psychiatrist, Mercy Douglas Human Superior vena cava syndrome Center, Philadelphia, 1977-1979; consultant psychiatrist, St. Ignatius Home for the Aged, Philadelphia, 1978-1985; attending psychiatrist, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Health Care, since 1987; consultant psychiatrist psycho-social department, Horizon House Rehabilitation Center, Philadelphia, 1987-1989; consultant psychiatrist, unites states department Labor, Workmen's Compensation Division, Philadelphia, since 1987; consultant psychiatrist, House Staff of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, since 1989. Consultant The Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, since 1976. With State of Pennsylvania Bureau Disability Determination, since 1975.

Attending psychiatrist West Philadelphia Mental Health Consortium, since 1972, medical directors, since 1991. Hospital affiliate University of Pennsylvania Health System HUP & PubMed Central, Friends Hospital, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Treatment, Graduate Hospital.

Achievements

• Edwin Nii Amalai Adom has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society Health (England), Thomas Bond Society. Member American Psychiat.Assn., American Academy Psychiatry and the Law, National Medical Association (Black Pioneers in Medicine), Black Psychiatrists American (executive 1975-1977), American Society Clinical Psychopharmacology, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, Medical Society Eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, New York Academy Science, World Federation Mental Health, Phila.Acad. Family Psychiatrists, National Geography Society.

Interests

• Avocations: traveling, world affairs, music, cultural affairs.

Connections

Married Margaret OdarkorLamptey. Children: Edwin Nii Nortey Junior, Isaac Michael Nii Nortei.

Father:

Isaac Quaye Adom

Mother:

Julianna Adorkor (Brown) Adom

Spouse:

Margaret OdarkorLamptey

child:

Edwin Nii Nortey Junior Adom

child:

Isaac Michael Nii Nortei Adom