Emmanuel Quaye Archampong

Professor Emmanuel Quaye Archampong, CV (10 October 1933 - 14 November 2021) was a Ghanaian surgeon and academic.

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 was awarded his Master of Surgery degree of the university of London in 1974 for his research on transport of fluid and electrolytes through the human colonic mucosa.

[12][13][14][15][7][8] In 1961 Archampong joined the staff of the medical unit of the University College Hospital as a house physician.

He served as the registrar of the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire from 1966 to 1967.

He spent a year as a visiting professor in the department of surgery of the health sciences centre of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada from 1980 to 1981 working in the area of Gastroenterology.

A citation was presented to him during the occasion and it read: "A Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in England and Edinburgh, Professor Archampong is a highly regarded clinician and clinical investigator, a consummate bedside teacher, and a mentor to generations of West African surgeons.

Blessed with a charming disposition and exemplary character, Professor Archampong personifies the true breed of the West African surgical personality.

He together with two colleagues edited a significant international text book in surgery which emphasizes the African experience.