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Dr. (James) Kwasi Kumi-Diaka Associate Professor of in the has a research focus in Phyto-chemotherapeutics, Carcinogenesis, and Reproductive Pathophysiology. He earned his Ph.D. in repro pathophysiology in 1981 and his DVM in veterinary medicine in 1974 at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, a research university in Nigeria. He joined �������� in August of 1994 and says that his greatest accomplishment as an �������� professor over the last 27 years is the number of students he has mentored and successfully graduated.

“As faculty, I have developed and taught many biological-biomedical science courses and labs -- undergraduate and graduate—in different institutions of higher learning- spanning from A.B. University, University of Wisconsin Madison and Florida Atlantic University,” Dr. Kumi-Diaka said. “My current research is in Phyto-chemotherapeutics, Carcinogenesis, and Reproductive Pathophysiology,” said Dr. Kumi-Diaka, Along with active support from my collaborators, I have trained and mentored many undergraduate and graduate students; authored and co-authored over 85 peer reviewed national-international journal articles; and given seminars/conferences on aspects of phytochemicals, carcinogenesis and health.”

Dr. Kumi-Diaka also serves as an Editorial Board Member and peer reviewer of manuscripts for many international peer review journals.

“Currently, I am mentoring three PhD and two MS graduate students, and at least three undergraduate research students per semester. I have trained over 250 undergraduate and 13 graduate (MS + PhD in �������� & NSU) student researchers to date over the course of my tenure at Florida Atlantic University,” he said.

Dr. Kumi-Diaka says his favorite experience at �������� was that period of time many years ago when the Broward campuses were administratively autonomous. “The social and academic activities were interactive and responsive to the needs of everyone. I miss the social meetings, seminars and monthly movies,” he said.

Dr. Kumi-Diaka arrived to �������� 27 years ago from the Department of Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He did his post-doc as a research associate at the Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph Ontario Canada. In 2013, Dr. Kumi-Diaka was awarded the Doctor of Science (DSC) Honoris Causea degree by the College of Medicine University of Science, Arts and Technology, Montserrat BWI.

Dr. Kumi-Diaka was born in Ghana, grew up in Canada, and currently lives in Sunrise, Florida. During his limited free time he enjoys the outdoors relaxing at home, and watching comedies.