Beatrice Wiafe Addai is a Ghanaian physician, breast surgeon, and cancer advocate specializing in breast cancer management, prevention, and public health education. She is the founder and chief executive officer of the Peace and Love Hospitals and the founder and president of Breast Care International (BCI), organizations established in 2002.
She is the recipient of President's Lifetime Achievement Award, Women that Soar Award and European Society for Research Award & European Award for Best Practices. She is a member of Ghana Medical Association, Surgical Society of Russia, Soviet Trained Graduates Association, and International Federation of University Women (IFUW).
Education Wiafe Addai received her early education at Mpraeso Presbyterian Primary School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. She continued her secondary education in Ghana before pursuing medical studies abroad. She worked for a period at Atibie Hospital before obtaining a government-sponsored scholarship to study medicine in the Soviet Union.
In 1982, she was among a small group of Ghanaian students selected to study medicine at Zaporozhye State Medical University (now Zaporizhzhia State Medical University) in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. She completed her studies in general medicine and graduated with an M.D. degree in 1989.
Career In 1989, Beatrice Wiafe Addai began her medical officer career at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Her career as a surgeon also started at the same hospital in 1994 when she became a resident general surgeon. Then in 2002, she became a consultant in breast cancer management for SDA. Hospital which is also located in Ghana.
Wiafe Addai established in 2002 the Peace and Love Hospitals and is currently the chief executive officer (C.E.O.). As of 2017, she is the president of AORTIC (African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer). Since 2016, she is a medical advisory board member of Direct Relief and became an executive member of the International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (ICBN). She is also a chairperson for the following organizations: Ghana Cancer Board, Ghana NCD Alliance, and Breast Cancer International Ghana Walk for the Cure.
Awards In 2016, she won the following awards: The GLITZ Woman of the Year Award, The Best Woman of the Year Award in Health Category, Global Person of Innovation in Science and Initiative, The Yaa Asantewa Award in the Men's Exclusive Honor, and The Most Philanthropic Woman's Award. Then in the year 2019, she achieved the following awards: The Glory Award, Global Leader in Management Award, and the Distinguished African Ambassador Award.
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