Born in Kumasi, Ghana, Dr. Akwasi Peprah Amponsah Jr. is an Interventional pain management consultant and Anesthesiologist practicing in Florida. He completed his early formal education in Ghana until he completed his Junior Secondary School education (State Experimental JSS, Kumasi); the equivalent to 10th grade of US high school system. He then entered the United States in October of 1996 to join his mother and nuclear family residing there at the time.
He attended a disadvantaged Central High School in Newark, NJ. While there, he managed to avoid and transcend above hate crimes and gang-related activities to excel in his studies and gain admission to Rutgers University (1999-2003) as an Edward J Bloustein Distinguished Scholar. At Rutgers, Dr. Amponsah heightened his interest in science and healthcare by majoring in Biological Sciences and also obtaining a minor in Psychology. During his junior year of college, Dr. Amponsah applied and was accepted into the ACCESS-MED program (a pipeline program between Rutgers University and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) – granting him with a conditional acceptance into Robert Wood Johnson medical school while a junior in college. In his senior year at Rutgers, he was allowed to take medical school courses and was subsequently granted full acceptance after passing all of the medical school courses.Upon graduation from Rutgers University, he obtained his medical degree from RWJ medical school. He went on to land a residency in Clinical Anesthesiology. During residency, he served as a resident delegate for the Committee of Interns and Residents advocating for rights and services for physicians in training. He stayed active in the community throughout residency fulfilling roles as a physician mentor, motivational speaker to several New Brunswick high schools, local churches and organizations as well as the Rutgers pre-med group ODASIS. He undertook a role as medical director of a non-profit health-focused organization called Quality Health Africa; a role he has held from 2014-2018. Under the umbrella of QHA, he has held and participated in healthfairs in Ghana, health summits in New York and the capitol in the nation’s capital, Washington DC.
Dr. Amponsah is currently the Program Director for the Interventional Pain Medicine fellowship program at Jackson Memorial Hospital & University of Miami-Miller Medical School. He is also the primary physician at the chronic pain medicine clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital, all in Miami, Fl. Dr. Amponsah is also a very involved father and lives in Miami, Fl with his daughter.
