Sandra Kwarteng Owusu is a Paediatric Pulmonologist and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Child Health, School of Medical Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana. She is also a Senior Specialist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. Sandra established the first Paediatric Pulmonology service at the (KATH) after her training in Cape Town South Africa. She has established a multi-disciplinary paediatric respiratory team. Her research work is focused on lung health conditions in childhood such as; asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV, and sickle cell disease. She also works on air pollution and its impact on lung health. Sandra is an ordinary executive member of the Pan African Thoracic Society and a member of the Ghana Thoracic Society.She worked closely with the society to develop the National Asthma Guideline for Ghana. She is collaborating with the Pan African Thoracic Society in the ongoing multicenter study- Chronic Respiratory Disease Observatory (CHEST AFRICA study)

Professor in Paediatrics, Head of the Department of General Pediatrics, University Childrens Hospital Münster, Germany. Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), Member of the North Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences. Coordinator of the European Reference Network for rare respiratory diseases (ERN-LUNG) PCD Core. Research interests: • Lead of the International PCD Registry established within the EU funded project BESTCILIA • Member of the Executive Committee of the Clinical Trial network for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD-CTN) founded in 2020. • Medical advisor of the Kartagener Syndrom und Primäre Ciliäre Dyskinesie e. V. and US PCD Foundation. • Gene discovery of Genotype-phenotype-correlations of PCD. • Development of novel diagnostic tests for PCD. • Development of mRNA based therapies for treatment of PCD.

Qualifications June 2024 Postdoctoral lecture qualification – Ass. Professor September 2023 Specialist in Allergology July 2012 Specialist in Pediatric Pulmonology June 2010 Specialist in Pediatrics October 2005 Specialist in Anesthesiology September 2003 Specialized in emergency medical services 2003-2005 Regular services in (pediatric) emergency medical services November 2001 Award of the medical doctorate degree Academic career Since 2019 Senior physician at the University Children's Hospital for General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology/Allergology and Dysphagia Center, Düsseldorf, Germany Head of the scientific working group Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Dysphagia 2018 Department Head of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, as well as Cystic Fibrosis Center at the University Children's Hospital Erlangen, Germany 2012 - 2017 Senior physician at the University Children's Hospital for General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Dysphagia Center, Düsseldorf, Germany 2010 - 2012 Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship at the University Children's Hospital Düsseldorf, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Pulmonology 2008 - 2010 Pediatric Fellowship at the Children's Hospital Wesel, specializing in Pediatric Pulmonology, senior physician in charge of Pediatric Bronchoscopy 2005 - 2008 Pediatric Fellowship at the St. Johannes Hospital Duisburg Focus on Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine 2000 – 2005 Anesthesiology Fellowship 1999 - 2000 Internship in Germany and Denmark 1993 - 2000 Medical studies at the Ruhr University Bochum