Yale

Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, a world-recognized expert in pediatric hematology, lettered in track for four years. He captained the indoor track team in 1969-1970 and the outdoor track team in spring 1970, the year he was named All-Ivy in outdoor track. In 1969 and 1970 Ohene-Frempong was the IC4A indoor champion in the 60-yard high hurdles and in 1971 he set a Heptagonal 60-yard high hurdle record of 7.1 seconds that stood for over three decades.

In addition to track, Ohene-Frempong lettered in soccer for three years (1967-1969) and in 1970 he received both the Walter Leeman Trophy in Soccer for outstanding initiative and leadership and the William Neely Mallory Award, given to the outstanding male athlete at Yale. He was later a NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipient. From 1964 to 1972, Ohene-Frempong was a member of the Ghana national track team and in 1972 Ghana’s Olympic track team. 

Following an illustrious undergraduate career, Ohene Frempong attended Yale School of Medicine, followed by residency at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has served as a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, a pediatric hematologist and director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and a chief medical officer of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. A leading authority on sickle cell diseases, Ohene-Frempong has been chair of the Sickle Cell Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health and president of the American Sickle Cell Association.