has been an invited speaker at both national and international conferences in Panama, Peru, Germany, Ghana, United States, Canada and the Caribbean Islands. He has authored in several peer-reviewed journals, major text books in facial plastic surgery and is a regular reviewer for the archives of facial plastic surgery journal. He is an expert in rhinoplasty, and has particular interest in cosmetic and reconstructive nose surgery in various ethnic groups. Honors and achievements In 1993, he received the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Award. In 1998 and 1999, he was selected as an ethnic scholar in cancer research by the American Academy of Cancer Researchers (AACR). At Mayo, he received a Best Teacher Recognition Award and the Distinguished Mayo Brothers Fellowship Award. The Distinguished Mayo Brother's Fellowship Award is an award given to only two surgeons in any given year throughout the Mayo Foundation. Recently, Boahene was awarded the Jack R. Anderson Prize for Scholastic Excellence for attaining the highest score in the nation on written and oral examinations administered by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS). 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. "I enjoy medical missions. It is where you see physicians at their best... working with little, complaining the least, but accomplishing the most." References External links http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/facial_plastic_reconstructive_surgery/our_team/our_surgeons/kofi_boahene.html http://www.drboahene.com/Pages/aboutus.aspx http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=269527 http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/opinion/kofi-boahene-african-doctors/ Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century births 20th-century American physicians 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American educators 20th-century Ghanaian people 21st-century American physicians 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American educators American medical writers American plastic surgeons Ghanaian emigrants to the United States Ghanaian surgeons Ghanaian writers Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians Johns Hopkins University faculty Meharry Medical College alumni People from Accra Physicians from Baltimore Writers from Baltimore Living people 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century surgeons 21st-century American male writers