Kwame Agyire-Tettey is a leading medical training and policy executive in West Africa.   He is the Executive Director of the Medical and Surgical Skills Institute (MSSI) in Accra Ghana West Africa.  Kwame established the MSSI in 2005 in partnership with Johnson & Johnson and the West Africa College of Surgeons. Under his leadership the MSSI has become the leading training center in West Africa.  The MSSI has grown from 18 annual participants in 2005 to 33,375 in 2020 – training medical professionals in over 13 countries.