Affiliation
Assistant Professor, University of Dakar

Address

University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar-Senegal
PO Box 5035

Dakar-Fann

Dakar

Senegal

 

Contact

tourekamadore@yahoo.ca

 

Biosketch

Prof Kamadore Touré is Assistant-Professor and Neurologist Practitioner with responsibilities ranging from lecturing, to health care. His research interests range from neurological diseases to quality of services. Following medical graduation at the University of Dakar, Prof Touré qualified as a neurologist after residency at the Fann University Teaching Hospital in Dakar Senegal and was appointed at the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, at the Faculty of Medicine, of the University of Dakar. He obtained a MPH from the University of Rome (Instituto Superiore di Sanita) and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Montreal. He developed a test to screen for dementia and this test is currently being used by the Department of Neurology at the Fann University Teaching Hospital. He collaborates with the Health Centre of IPRES, University of Montreal.

 

 

Key research/capacity building interests

 

Research Interests

• Dementia
• Stroke in the elderly

Key methodological skills

• Epidemiology, methodology of research
• Training
• Data management with SPSS

Current/planned research

• Pilot projects on dementia in the elderly population of Ouakam 60+ (suburb of Dakar): prevalence and risk factors.
• Management of stroke at primary level in Dakar, Senegal.
• Longitudinal study on Health and Aging of Senegalese Elderly Population (planned research for the next 5 years).