Spine Talk

The Brain Trust at Texas Back Institute is Growing – Welcome Neurosurgeon Akwasi Boah The newest member of the world class surgical team at Texas Back Institute is a native of Brooklyn, New York and is a first generation Ghanaian American. Dr. Akwasi Boah was introduced to the medical profession as a toddler. “My father was a pediatrician and my mother was a nurse when I was born,” he said. “Later, my mother became an entrepreneur.” He graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia with a degree in Interdisciplinary Health Services with a minor in Biology and was accepted by the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Clearly, this medical school was a long way from his home! “I thought Atlanta was on another planet,” Dr. Boah laughed. “But I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life there. From there, I came back home for surgical training at New York University School of Medicine, and did a fellowship at Johns Hopkins in their Department of Neurosurgery. “As it turned out, I had a famil