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 in many of the Kenya Paediatric HIV Projects 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). She was the Principle Investigator in the Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium (Keprecon) funded by USAID through AIDSFREE HIV Project.
She has been involved in research projects at University of Nairobi, with Keprecon and Gertrude Children’s Hospital. She has supervised many dissertations for the postgraduate students in the department of pediatrics in the University of Nairobi and Aga Khan University. This has led to her writing and publishing many articles in nephrology and paediatric.
She is a Member of the Technical Working Group on HIV at National AIDS and STI’s Control Programme (NASCOP). 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 runned 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 Medical Therapeutic Committee Gertrude Children’s Hospital. Chairlady of the Peritoneal Dialysis Division of Kenya Renal Association. She is also a Board of Director of Child Welfare Society of Kenya. She is past Chairlady of Kenya Paediatric Association and a past treasure of Kenya Renal Association.
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