Dr. Ernest Kofi Antwi aged 66 of Jackson, Tennessee passed away on May 7, 2017. Dr. Antwi was born on May 26, 1951 in Ghana to Isaac Cobbinah Antwi and Madam Rosina Akosua Konadu.

In 1970, he completed his first five years of secondary education at Kumasi Academy and continued to Opoku Ware Secondary school to finish the last two years of his secondary education in Ghana.

He continued to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. At the end of his first year he got a scholarship to study medicine at The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia also known as RUDN University.

After his medical schooling he returned to Ghana and practiced at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi. Years after, he moved to the United States of America, where he completed his internship and medical residency in internal medicine at Meharry Medical College, Nashville. He then continued to do a fellowship in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes
and metabolism at The University of South Florida College of Medicine. He worked at Brown & Brown group practice in Nashville Tennessee as an internist and also at West Tennessee Healthcare.

He opened Jackson Endocrine & Diabetes center. And he later opened Trinity Diabetes and Endocrine clinic in Jackson Tennessee.

He is survived by his five children, Nana Konadu Boateng-Eck, Kwabena Antwi, Papa kwasi Antwi all of Australia, Ernest Antwi Jr. and Nana Serwaa Antwi, both of Tennessee, 10 grandchildren and siblings.

REST PEACEFULLY IN THE LORD

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