Professor Yaw Adu-Gyamfi is a Consultant and Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care and has 39 years of teaching experience. He is the former head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University Of Ghana Medical School. He taught at the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and was for 14 years, the Head of Department of Anaesthesiology and served on the Saudi Council for Medical Specialties that initiated post graduate medical education in anaesthesia in the Kingdom.

Prof Adu-Gyamfi was a member of the advocacy group that promoted the setting up of the Ghana Postgraduate College which resulted in the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a member of the Foundation Executive Board and the inception Chairman of the Faculty of Anaesthesiology. He was given a Meritorious Award on the 10th Anniversary of the College, and he is the current Chairman of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been pursuing and promoting qualitative and quantitative improvement in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care in Ghana.

He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (FGA) and worked as a Consultant Trainer for UNFPA for five years, in Sierra Leone. He trained anaesthesia personnel who contributed to a reduction in maternal mortality from 2000 deaths per 100,000 live births to 800 per 100,000 during his tenure.

He was the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) from 2003 to 2005 and used his Presidency to promote health insurance and reform of the Additional Duty Hours Allowance (ADHA). He also advocated for the setting up of the Ghana Health Insurance Scheme and joined in the preparatory work. He subsequently served as Chairman of the Board of the National Health Insurance Authority from 2017 to 2020.

Professor Adu Gyamfi served on the Presidential Taskforce for COVID-19 and the National Technical and Coordinating Committee of the Ministry of Health and in 2023 was awarded the Order of the Volta, an order of merit from the Republic of Ghana for outstanding contribution as part of the taskforce.

He currently teaches on part time basis at University of Ghana Medical School, is a consultant at FOCOS Hospital, and is supporting the inception of the physician assistants’ anaesthesia training program at the University of Allied Health Sciences, Ho, in the Volta Region of Ghana.