
NANA PROF. OHENEBA BOACHIE-ADJEI WOAHENE II
Nana Prof. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei Woahene II is the President and Founder of the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) and the current board chairman of the Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II Foundation. After completing his A levels at OWASS, Nana Prof immigrated to the United States in 1972 and completed undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he received a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude-Chemistry) in 1976.
He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1980 and completed an Orthopaedic surgery residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. In 1986, he was a John H. Moe fellow in spine deformity at the Twin Cities Scoliosis Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Nana Prof. Boachie Adjei is an Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Chief emeritus of the Scoliosis Service at Hospital for Special Surgery, HSS, and an Emeritus Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at both HSS and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Nana Prof. has special expertise in the treatment of Spine deformities and complex spine reconstruction in both adult and pediatric patients. The coveted Russell Hibbs Award for Best Clinical Research Paper was awarded to him in 1989, 2002 & 2013 by the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS); the SRS also awarded him the Louis Goldstein Award for Best Clinical Poster in 1999 and 2002 He was presented with the Philip D. Wilson Award for Outstanding Teacher in 1998 by Hospital for Special Surgery, the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2003 by Brooklyn College, the Humanitarian Award in 2004 by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Albert Schweitzer Science & Peace Gold Medal in 2005 and the Walter P. Blount Service Award in 2006 by the SRS and was featured in the Discovery channel documentary entitled, “Surgery Saved My Life.” He was elected President of the Scoliosis Research Society for the year 2008-2009 and in June 2013; Prof. Boachie-Adjei received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Hospital for Special Surgery. In 2015, He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by his Alma Mata, Brooklyn College and was featured on CNN’s African Voices documentary as the Ghanaian Doctor transforming Spine Surgery in 2016; the University Of Toledo, Ohio inducted him into their Global Medical Mission Hall of Fame.
In 2016, he was awarded by the Philanthropy Forum Ghana; the individual philanthropist of the year (Special Needs). In 2017-2020 alone, he won twelve more national and international awards of which two were humanitarian, four philanthropic, three for leadership and good governance and two scientific Prof. Boachie-Adjei has published and lectured extensively on spine surgery, with special emphasis on surgery to correct complex spine deformity.
He is also an inventor who holds several patents for devices used in spine surgery. He has trained over 500 orthopedic and spine surgeons all over the world including 5 of Ghana’s fellowship trained spine deformity surgeons. His hobbies include golf, reading, travel, photography and fashion. Nana Prof was enstooled as Otumfuo Hiahene on the 19th November 2020 at the the Manhyia palace with the stool name Oheneba Boachie-Adjei Woahene II He is married to Hilda Boachie-Adjei and they have three sons Kwadwo, Yaw and Kwame Boachie-Adjei.