Dr. Mary Kormley Yeboah Afihene (Kumasi, Ghana) is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and CEO at Signetcare Medical Services. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Gut and Liver Foundation; an NGO which she started with the mission to provide education, training, research, advocacy, awareness creation of digestive and liver diseases,and also to enhance prevention and provision of care to people with the diseases while sharing the love of God. Mary also works as a Part-Time Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD), College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
Mary started her career as a House officer at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after obtaining her medical degree from KNUST. Her Fellowship and Gastroenterology training was at the West African College of Physicians. Until her retirement in 2018, Mary was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, KNUST and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at KATH. She was the Head of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit and helped to establish and headed the GIT/Hepatology Clinic and Endoscopy Unit of KATH.
She is a founding member of the Ghana Association for the Study of Liver and Digestive Diseases and was President from 2015 for 4 years. Mary has authored and co-authored a number of journal articles on gastrointestinal and liver diseases been published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine, International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, served on some scientific advisory boards, and was part of the committee for the development of the National Viral Hepatitis Treatment Guidelines for Ghana.
