
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