Ghanaian Orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Oheneba
Boachie-Adjei, will this weekend take his turn on the
Glo-sponsored television magazine programme, CNN African Voices.
Dr Boachie-Adjei is being featured following last
week's profiling of Nigerian doctor and founder/ publisher of Health Care,
Bola Olaosebikan, as special guest on the programme.
African Voices will be
broadcast on CNN International at 4.30 a.m. and
4.30 p.m. on Saturday and at 12.30 p.m. and 7.30
p.m. on Sunday. Other repeats of the programme will be shown on Monday at 11:30
a.m. and on Tuesday at 5.30 a.m.
Boachie-Adjei developed interest in medicine
early in life when a doctor saved him from a life-threatening illness when he
was a child. Since then, Dr. Boachie Adjei has spent decades striving to save
the lives of others. His passion for medicine has made the Ghanaian one of the
leading experts in the field of spinal surgery worldwide.
He is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill
Cornell Medical College, and Chief Emeritus of the Scoliosis Service at
Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). He is an Associate Attending
Orthopaedic Surgeon at both HSS and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He has
a special expertise in the treatment of scoliosis, kyphosis and spine
reconstruction in both adult and pediatric patients.
Dr. Boachie-Adjei, was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on
December 16, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1972 and completed his
undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College, where he received a Bachelor of
Science (summa cum laude) in 1976. He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree
from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1980.
He was Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
at the University of Minnesota (1987-1990); Clinical Assistant Professor,
University of Southern California (1990-1994) and Assistant Clinical Professor,
University of California College of Medicine, Irvine (1993-1994). His clinical
appointments included the position of Associate Medical Director at the
Southern California Complex Spine and Scoliosis Center in Whittier (1990-1994).
Dr. Boachie-Adjei has published and lectured
extensively on Spine Surgery, with special emphasis on surgery to correct spine
deformity. He is an inventor who holds several patents for devices used in
spine surgery.
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