Kofi Boahene

Kofi Owusu Boahene is a Ghanaian-born American physician, writer, researcher, and academic.

He is a professor of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a facial plastic surgeon in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. As a facial plastic surgeon, Boahene specializes solely in plastic surgery of the face, head and neck.

Early years Boahene, who is the firstborn of eight children grew up on Binton Street, a less-affluent neighborhood in North Kaneshie, Accra. His parents, Pastor and Mrs. James Owusu, operated a pharmacy store before becoming full-time missionaries in the early 1980s. He attended primary school at Bubuashie, Datus Preparatory School and his secondary school education at Prempeh College in Kumasi.

Education In 1991, after his A-Level exams and National Service with the Ghana Meteorological Agency, he traveled to Russia to pursue training in veterinary medicine. He became fluent in the Russian language at a time where the former Soviet Union was opening its doors to the outside world. Due to political reasons in the Soviet Union, and other factors, Boahene moved to the United States.

Boahene received his medical degree in 1999 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee,

Boahene completed specialized fellowship training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinics in 2005,

Advances in the field Boahene is actively involved in tissue-engineering research that is exploring ways to improve wound healing, enhance injectable tissue fillers, and generate new cartilage or bone for facial reconstruction.

In 2003, he received an international medicine travel grant and was able to participate in his first medical mission to Mexico. Since then, Boahene has been on several medical mission trips to Peru and his native country, Ghana.