PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital’s director of hospital medicine has been named the governor-elect designee of the Rhode Island Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie will complete a year of training before he begins a four-year term as governor of the American College of Physicians’ Rhode Island division.
Dapaah-Afriyie is a longtime hospitalist, or internal medicine specialist, who treats hospital patients. He founded The Miriam’s hospitalist program in 1994 and was instrumental in establishing a similar program at Newport Hospital, which is also within the Lifespan Corp. health system.
Dapaah-Afriyie, a professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has been named a Top Doctor several times by Rhode Island Monthly, and is a senior fellow in the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Elizabeth Graham is a PBN contributing writer.
