However Far the Stream Flows : The Making of the Man Who Rebuilds Faces

Boahene, Kofi

ISBN 10: 0997493003 / ISBN 13: 9780997493009

Published by Platform Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: However Far the Stream Flows : The Making of the Man Who Rebuilds Faces
• Publisher: Platform Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997493003
• ISBN 13: 9780997493009
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.875 pounds

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Synopsis

This is the story of an impossible dream that came true. It starts with a ten-year-old boy in Ghana stumbling on an encyclopedia entry about the founders of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. William Mayo and his two sons, in a far-off place called Minnesota. He decides that one day, when he grows up, he will work there. Although the odds are stacked against him, he dreams of becoming a doctor, oblivious to the many obstacles he will encounter before it can come true. This is a story of how Kofi Boahene, son of a salesman and a bank teller, met and overcame those obstacles with the help of proverbial Good Samaritans that seemed to pop up at just the right moment. Sustained by his faith and devotion to his parents and seven younger siblings, Dr. Boahene pursued his impossible dream until it came true. He has been described by CNN as “The Man Who Rebuilds Faces,” and his example is inspiring a new generation of African students to follow in his footsteps.

About the Author

Dr. Kofi Derek Owusu Boahene is an associate professor of otolaryngology--head and neck surgery, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
He is a recognized leader in his field, is known globally as an innovator of less invasive surgical techniques for removal of skull base tumors, and he is an expert in the correction of facial paralysis.
Author of scientific papers, book chapters, textbooks and articles, he is an active surgical missionary who has brought dignity and hope to hundreds of children afflicted with facial birth defects in Africa, Bangladesh, Mexico, and South America.
He lives in Maryland with his wife, Adjoa, and their four children.