Spine Surgeon Leader to Know: Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei of Hospital for Special Surgery

 
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, MD, is chief emeritus of the scoliosis service and an attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. He is also a professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and an attending surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital, both located in New York. He has previously served as associate medical director at the Southern California Complex Spine and Scoliosis Center in Whittier. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and North American Spine Society. He is a past president of the Scoliosis Research Society.

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Dr. Boachie-Adjei has a professional interest in the treatment of scoliosis, kyphosis and spine reconstruction in both adult and pediatric patients. He has won numerous awards over the course of his career, including the Humanitarian Award from AAOS in 2004 and Russell Hibbs Award/Best Clinical Research Paper from the Scoliosis Research Society in 2002. His research interests include clinical outcomes studies in scoliosis and other spine deformities and gene therapy for spine fusion.

 

Dr. Boachie-Adjei is actively involved in providing charity care. He is the founder and president of Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine, through which he has provided orthopedic medical care to underserved populations in West Africa and other developing nations.

 

Dr. Boachie-Adjei earned his medical degree at Columbia University in New York and his residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital & Medical Center. He has completed a fellowship at Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Scoliosis Center.

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