Harold Hopwood Phillips (1928 — 1999) was a Ghanaian academic and doctor. He was chairman of the

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and also Dean of the

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. Phillips also served as the chairman of the

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Council. He was the first head of the Department of Physiology of the school.

Education

Phillips attended Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, graduating in 1946. He went to London in 1952 after completing a science degree at the University College of the Gold Coast (now the

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) to attend medical school at the

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on a government scholarship. In 1954, he won a scholarship from the hospital to undertake additional study and was awarded a B.Sc in Physiology in 1955. He was graduated M.B, B.S in 1958 and was awarded his Ph.D. in Physiology from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario in Canada in 1972.

Professional life

Phillips was recruited by the Government of Ghana while undergoing post graduate studies in medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA to help establish and lead the Physiology department of the fledgling University of Ghana Medical School in Accra. He went on to become the third Dean of the medical school, and an Associate Professor of Physiology. He resigned from the medical school in 1980, but continued to lecture on a part-time basis. He set up his private practice - Phillips Clinic, an out-patient clinic in 1982 in East Cantonments in

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, Ghana. He was also chairman of the Ghana Medical Association between 1986 and 1990. He was also made chairman of the University of Cape Coast in the late 1990s.

Personal life

Phillips was born at

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and died in

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in 1999. His father was William Reginald Phillips and his mother Beatrice Phillips (ter Meulen). He had four sons with his wife Gladys. One of his brothers was J. V. L. Phillips who was the chairman of

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, and was an uncle of

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Phillips, Harold H. 1928 births 1999 deaths Fante people Academic staff of the University of Ghana Academic staff of the University of Ghana Medical School