Dr kofi boahene johns hopkins hospital telephone 4439976467

Publications

• Gooi Z, Gourin CG, Boahene KD, Byrne PJ, Richmon JD. "Temporal Trends in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery Reconstruction." Head Neck. 2014 May 31.

• Lee LN, Smith DF, Boahene KD, Byrne PJ. "Intraoperative Laser-assisted Indocyanine Green Imaging for Objective Measurement of the Vascular Delay Technique in Locoregional Head and Neck Flaps." JAMA Facial Plast Surg. 2014 Sep 1;16(5):343-7.

• Dey JK, Ishii LE, Byrne PJ, Boahene KD, Ishii M. "Seeing is Believing: Objectively Evaluating the Impact of Facial Reanimation Surgery on Social Perception." Laryngoscope. 2014 Jun 26.

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  My colleagues at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been badgering me to tell this story for years. Born and raised in Ghana, first of eight children, my father was a chemist (a form of pharmacist) and from the age of ten I dreamed of becoming a doctor one day and helping my fellow Ghanaians get access to better health care. I'd read an entry in an encyclopedia about the famed Mayo Clinic and got it in my head that I would one day work there. Dr. William Mayo and his two sons started the clinic and I imagined my family following their example. Nearly forty years later, it has come true—I am a plastic and facial reconstructive surgeon at John Hopkins and all but one of my siblings are employed as doctors and in other healthcare professionals. Having completed the book, even I am astonished at how it all happened in spite of one major obstacle after another and, against all odds, I managed to realize my dreams. There was hard work, sacrifice, and commitment but also people, strangers even—modern-day Samaritans—who miraculously popped up at just the right moment to

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  Kofi Boahene

  Ghanaian-born American plastic surgeon

  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