Get to Know the Owner

Dr. Kofi Wurapa is a competent physician with a remarkable, deeply empathetic side. His parents are originally from Ghana, West Africa; however, he grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dr. Wurapa enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school and attended Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA, followed by medical school at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. He is a resident trained in Family Medicine, Preventive and Occupational Medicine, with a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. As an Army doctor, he was a Flight Surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division for three years, a Battalion Surgeon with the 3rd Group Special Forces and 95th Civil Affairs Special Forces Brigade at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) for 10 years, with four deployments to Afghanistan and three in the Sahel. Dr. Wurapa was also sent to Kenya in 2010 as the Director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance for three years (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Cameroon) and the Tanzania Country Director for the Military Malaria Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, for four years. Upon his retirement from military service after 23 years, he worked as a clinician for Kaiser Permanente and Patient First. From January 2022 to December 2023, he completed a master’s in project management at the University of Maryland Global Campus in College Park, Maryland, and during this time was an Adjunct Professor at Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, where he taught Anatomy and Physiology.

Dr. Wurapa loves spending time with his family. His wife is an Orthopedic Nurse currently in NP school, and his son is a 2Lt in the U.S. Air Force as a Cyber Security officer. In addition, he has two daughters, aged 8 and 10. Dr. Wurapa played soccer in high school and college, but after a parachute injury in 2003, his soccer-playing days are now over. He likes to stay in shape by road marching and roller-skating with his daughters. He lives in Gaithersburg, MD, and attends the Church of the Redeemer in Gaithersburg. When he grows up, he sees himself working for Doctors Without Borders in Africa.