Professor Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, was a Ghanaian surgeon and academic. He was an emeritus professor of the College of Health Sciences University of Ghana Medical School, University of Ghana, Legon. He was an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a fellow of the International College of Surgeons, a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences of which he once served as vice-president of the sciences, and a foundation fellow of the West African College of Surgeons of which he served as its president from 1997 to 1999. He was also a member and once president of the West African Society of Gastroenterologists. Early life and education Archampong was born on 12 October 1933 in Accra, Greater Accra Region. He had his early education at Bishop's Boys' School in Accra. He had his secondary education at the Accra Academy from 1947 to 1951, there some of his contemporaries included Emmanuel Noi Omaboe; a former minister of state in the NLC government. He continued at the University of Ghana which was then known as the University College of the Gold Coast where he studied the natural sciences from 1952 to 1955. He left for England in 1955 to study medicine at the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University College, London, University of London where he was awarded his BSc Special (Hons) in Anatomy in 1958. He continued his studies at the UCL Medical School in October 1958, graduating in November 1961 with his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery certificate; MB, BS (London) with honours and a number of distinctions thereby becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. He read for the primary and final fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1966 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1971 while a lecturer at the University of Ghana, he won a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship Award to further his studies in surgery at the UCL Medical School. His research was in the area of Colorectal Surgery he doubled as an honorary senior lecturer in surgery at the UCL Medical School surgical unit. He was awarded his Master