Alexander A. Clerk
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13 May 1947 Cape Coast, Gold Coast |
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| Known for | Contributions to sleep medicine |
Alexander Adu Clerk (born 13 May 1947) is a Ghanaian-American psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist.
Alexander Adu Clerk was born in Cape Coast, Ghana in 1947. He had his early education at mission schools in Osu and Bekwai in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions respectively. After completing his secondary education at Achimota School, he studied medicine at the University of Ghana Medical School, graduating in 1975. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. For fellowship training in sleep medicine, he attended the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Between 1975 and 1978, Clerk was a medical officer at the Effia-Nkwantah Hospital, Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana. Later, he became an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. He was also appointed the Chief Director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the Loma Linda Veteran Administration Hospital from 1984 to 1989. Clerk was a professor of psychiatry at Stanford and became the Director of the world’s first sleep clinic, Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine from 1990 to 1998 where he was responsible for clinical operations, sleep research and supervised training of other medical specialists. Over the course of his career, he has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters and abstracts pertaining to the science of sleep. He has done medical outreach work in the United States, Canada, Ivory Coast and his native Ghana. Alexander Clerk is a founding member and Western Region Director of the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation based in New York City to promote specialist training and professional development in medicine, and associated fields in Ghana. He is a member of the Fellowship Training Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He has been board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is the current Director of Sleep Medicine Services at O'Connor Health Center based in San Jose, California.
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