Dr Kofi A Anie MBE is the Psychology Service Lead for children and adults with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, and the Deputy Clinical Director of the West London Haemoglobinopathies Coordinating Centre.
Dr Anie trained at the University of Surrey and attained his PhD at the University of London. He began his professional career at King’s College Hospital, London where he pioneered psychological interventions for children with sickle cell disease. He was later a Research Fellow at St George’s University of London, and was appointed to his current position in 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society; his other professional affiliations include the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and American Psychological Association.
Dr Anie has been involved in development of national clinical guidelines and standards of care for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia. He is currently a Scientific Advisor to the Sickle Cell Society, an Advisor to Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, and a Haemoglobinopathies Editor for the Cochrane Library. He has also served on a Sickle Cell Disease Roundtable Discussion parallel with the 2018 World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, and a WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing, Cape Town, South Africa 2020.
Dr Anie is a collaborator on several international initiatives including the West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC), and presently the Ethics and Community Engagement Core Leader of Sickle Cell Disease Genomics Network of Africa (SickleGenAfrica). His professional aspiration is owed to a life-long personal and family experience of sickle cell disease. He was awarded with Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to People with Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassaemia in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
