Adzika Agbemenya Vincent is a Medical Psychopathologist and Pain Research Scientist. He attended the prestigious Saint Peter’s Secondary School, Nkwetia-Kwahu, Ghana, and holds degrees from the University of Cape Coast, the University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Education, Winneba, the University of Aalborg, Denmark, the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

He earned his Ph.D. in Medical Psychology from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), concentrating on the combined intervention of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy. He then earned his second Ph.D. from Trinity Theological Seminary, specializing in Christianity and Development in Ghana: The Socio-Economic History of the Methodist Church in the Gold Coast.

As a specialist in neuropathic pain intervention, Adzika has participated in the Doctor of Philosophy Course in Translational Neurobiology of Pain System at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Aalborg, Denmark, and an Advanced Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychoneuroimmunology—Expanding Consciousness, and the Measurement of Pain at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, where he taught for some time. He then worked as a research fellow at the KNUST School of Medical Sciences and is now with the University of Ghana and the Methodist University of Ghana. He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the Canadian Pain Society (CPS), the South African Association for the Study of Pain (PainSA), and the Ghana Psychological Council.

Very Rev. Adzika is a Methodist Church Ghana minister and the Church’s Strategic Plan manager. He has further demonstrated his leadership and organizational skills through hosting the most popular Christian morning show in Ghana on Wesleyan Television, “Sore Na Hyeren.” Rev’s strengths are communicating purpose and mediating/negotiating agreements.