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Dr Solomon Obiri-Yeboah

BDS, FGCS, IFCS, FWACS
Consultant/Senior Lecturer, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Kumasi, Ghana. Dr. Solomon Obiri-Yeboah is a Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana. Solomon had his BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) from the University Ghana Dental School, Accra Ghana, residency and fellowship training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the KATH, KNUST, with Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeon. He had an International Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery fellowship from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, USA. He serves as a board member of the Ghana Cleft Foundation and the leader of the multidisciplinary cleft palate and craniofacial team at KATH. He is the coordinator and trainer for the WACS-Smile Train post-fellowship programme in cleft surgery in Ghana. He has mentored generations of undergraduate students, clinicians, professional fellowships and cleft surgeons in Ghana and the sub-Saharan African subregion. He serves on a number of academic, NGO, national and international committees. He won the 2017 ACPA Scholar and the ACPA Emerging Leader Award in 2019. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Dr. Obiri-Yeboah enjoys reading, listening to music, and sightseeing. His research interests span a wide range of topics, including cleft and craniofacial anomalies, craniomaxillofacial injury, and facial reconstructive surgery, and he has over 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Thursday 29th May

Cleft Palate Procedure