KwadwoSarpongMD

Summary

• Kwadwo A. Sarpong is a resident physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Neurosurgery. He graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2022. His current research interests are in global neurosurgery and has founded several nonprofits to address the unmet research and neurosurgical needs in low-and-middle income countries. He is an avid proponent for gender parity in STEM and health equity across the globe.

From cleaner to neurosurgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Dr Kwadwo
"I didn't think it was possible", Dr Sarpong's answer to my question about whether he saw himself becoming a resident Neurosurgeon at the prestigious Vanderbilt

Medical Student Discusses His Journey to Georgetown at AAAS Annual Meeting - Geo
(March 1, 2019) - At the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., researchers, scientists, educators

Neurosurgeon in the Making: The Amazing Journey of Kwadwo Sarpong
This is the story of how a remarkable young immigrant from Ghana started his life in the US as a janitor and, along the way, founded two nonprofit organizations