Mr Alexander Gyesi-Appiah joined the MSG in 2024 from Nottingham University Hospitals where he has been a consultant for the past three years and where he focused on what he describes as the ‘perpetual battle’ to ensure women who had been referred as needing to be seen within two weeks were actually seen during that time.
Born and raised in Ghana, Mr Gyesi-Appiah studied medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, before moving to the UK in 2003 where he worked as a senior house officer in Leicester.
He completed his specialist training in in 2013, having done advanced training skills modules in advanced labour ward and emergency gynaecology and early pregnancy.
Mr Gyesi-Appiah has a special interest in managing two-week wait pathways, menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), outpatient hysteroscopy, benign and early gynaecological cancer surgery, vaginal surgery, and labour ward management.
He says he was inspired to choose his specialty after working in a district hospital in Ghana where doctors needed to be able to perform three operations to save hundreds of lives - caesarean sections, surgical management of ectopic and evacuation of retained products of conception.
"Spending time with the patient and listening to their concerns can make a huge difference in improving patient care"
Mr Gyesi-Appiah has a wife and three children. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family, playing traditional Ghanaian guitar and following the premiership football.
