He is professor of orthopaedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, in the United States,[1] and is an attending orthopaedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, all in New York City.
[3] Boachie-Adjei was born on 16 December 1950 in Kumasi to Mary Akosua Dwomoh and Mr Boakye Dankwa in Ghana West Africa.
[3] Boachie-Adjei established the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine in Accra, Ghana, of which he is the president; it helps to provide better orthopaedic medical services to West Africa and other parts of the Third World.
[3][4][5] In 2006, he was named to the David B. Levine Endowed Clinical Research Chair at Hospital for Special Surgery.
[7] He received the Ghana UK-Based Achievement Awards (GUBA) for his contributions in the field of medicine in 2019.