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Dr. Maxwell Boakye, MD, MPH, MBA, FACS, FAANS
Maxwell Boakye is Professor and Chief of Spinal Neurosurgery and Director of Quality Improvement and Clinical Director of Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville.
A clinician-scientist, he devotes about half of his time to outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, and spinal cord injury research. He also directs the University of Louisville spine fellowship. His spinal cord injury research focuses on discovering innovative treatments for paralysis.
Dr. Boakye has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts and coedited one spinal cord injury textbook. He leads the University of Louisville Department of Neurosurgery surgical innovation forum that brings together surgeons, engineers, and scientists for bimonthly innovation and idea development forum meetings.
He has also been interested in Global neurosurgery and assisting with the development of Neurosurgery in Ghana. Dr. Boakye is working on his first nonfiction book focusing on his life immigrating from Ghana to the US as a teenager and developing into a neurosurgeon-scientist.
The book will feature his observations about Neurosurgery, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Healthcare quality improvement. Dr. Boakye is an avid chess player and writes about Chess as a tool for brain development, delaying brain aging, and teaching life skills to young and old, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds.
A clinician-scientist, he devotes about half of his time to outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, and spinal cord injury research. He also directs the University of Louisville spine fellowship. His spinal cord injury research focuses on discovering innovative treatments for paralysis.
Dr. Boakye has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, book chapters, and abstracts and coedited one spinal cord injury textbook. He leads the University of Louisville Department of Neurosurgery surgical innovation forum that brings together surgeons, engineers, and scientists for bimonthly innovation and idea development forum meetings.
He has also been interested in Global neurosurgery and assisting with the development of Neurosurgery in Ghana. Dr. Boakye is working on his first nonfiction book focusing on his life immigrating from Ghana to the US as a teenager and developing into a neurosurgeon-scientist.
The book will feature his observations about Neurosurgery, Medicine, Neuroscience, and Healthcare quality improvement. Dr. Boakye is an avid chess player and writes about Chess as a tool for brain development, delaying brain aging, and teaching life skills to young and old, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds.
