Gabriel M. Anabwani – Gabarone, Botswana
Anabwani has played a leading role in Botswana’s fight against pediatric HIV.
Andrew Kiragu – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dr. Andrew Waititu Kiragu is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care unit at HCMC. He is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and subsequently graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C. with an MD…
Flora Terah-Igoki – Lachine, Quebec, Canada
Trained as a social worker, Flora Terah-Igoki worked as an HIV/AIDS trainer and women’s rights advocate in her native country of Kenya. As a victim of horrible violent acts, the need for peaceful solutions is never far from her thoughts. She has combined her experience as a grassroots organizer, an educator and as a women’s…
Raphael M. Bibiu – Worcester, Massachusetts
Raphael Bibiu is the Co-Owner/Chief Operating Officer for Ace Medical Services. A licensed practical nurse, he has parlayed his skills into running a successful medical services company. Founded in 2006, Ace Medical Services offers skilled (IV therapy, care coordination, wound care, psychiatric care, med monitoring, home health aide care, etc.) and unskilled (personal care, companion…
Evelyn Gathecha – Baltimore, MD
Evelyn Gathecha, M.D., earned a medical degree for the Charles University First Faculty of Medicine (Universita Karlova) in Prague, Czech Republic. She completed a residency in internal medicine at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined CIMS as an Academic Hospitalist Fellow in 2011. Dr. Gathecha is a member of American College of Physicians…
Dr. Maina Gatonye – Miami, Florida
Dr. Maina Gatonye arrived in South Florida in 1994 to study pre-medicine and has called Miami his second home ever since. He attended St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens and graduated cum-laude at the top of his class. He then received a full scholarship to attend the prestigious Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, which…
Lisa Kathumbi-Culbreath – Columbus, Ohio
Lisa Kathumbi-Culbreath personifies the very nature of a Kenyan Jewel. In an article posted by the University of Cincinnati in 2001, they highlighted her various achievements. As the winner of the C-ring -the university’s top award to a graduating female, she was selected on the basis of scholarship, campus leadership, service to the Cincinnati community,…
David Muhia – London, United Kingdom
David Muhia gives no meaning to the definition of achievement
Muthoka Mutinga – Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Mutinga matriculated through the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, following completion of his internship and residency at the same institution. He is now a member of the faculty at the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital with his principal affiliation at the Faulkner Hospital. Dr. Mutinga has research interest in the…
Christine Thaiya – Atlanta, Georgia
Christine Thaiya attended both college and dental school in the Ukraine, Russia. After graduation from Dental School, Dr. Thaiya had a two year Dental Internship in Nairobi, followed by advanced training in Washington, D.C. at Howard University, and then in Baltimore at the University of Maryland. It was here that she gained considerable experience in…
