Dr Doris M.W. Kinuthia is medical professional with expertise in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, nephrology and HIV. She graduated from the University of Nairobi with medical qualifications MB.Ch.B and M.Med in Paediatrics. She has Certificates in Tropical medicine and Immunology from the same University. She did her fellowship in Paediatric Nephrology at the hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London .U.K. She has a post graduate diploma and Master of Business Administration from Sunderland University U.K.
She was a senior lecturer in the University of Nairobi, Department of Paediatrics. Currently she is a part time senior lecture in the Department of Paediatrics, Aga Khan University Hospital. She also practices in general paediatrics and paediatric nephrology in many of the private hospitals
She has a vast experience as a trainer and mentor in Paediatric HIV medicine. She has worked as Senior Technical Advisor many of the Kenya Paediatric HIV Project, funded by USAID, EGPAF, FHI, MSF, CDC Partnership of Advance Clinical Education (PACE) Project through University of Maryland, Baltimore and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Currently she is the Principle Investigator in the Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium (KEPRECON) & AIDSFREE HIV Project.
She is a Member of the Technical Working Group on HIV at NASCOP (National AIDS and STI’s Control Programme. She has worked as a consultant on NASCOP and WHO projects on training and mentoring health care workers on HIV in adolescents. She is a facilitator in the National Advanced HIV Clinical courses which is a programme run by Department of Infectious diseases University of Nairobi. University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA and NASCOP
Currently she is the Vice Chairlady of KEPRECON. She has held many administrative posts in Gertrude Children’s Hospital and Aga Khan University Hospital where she was recently the Chairman Hospital Ethics Committee in the AKUH. She is past Chairlady of Kenya Paediatric Association and a past treasure of Kenya Renal Association.
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