East Africa board member
Senior lecturer, department of surgery University of Nairobi, Kenya. Breast and Endocrine Surgeon.
Regional Committee
Dr. Proscovia Mugaba
Regional Council & UCMF Chairperson
Dr. Proscovia Mugaba Kasangaki is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist currently based at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. She is married to Dr. Arabat Kasangaki a maxillofacial surgeon and pedodontist, and they have two sons - Samuel aged 11 years and Gabriel aged 8 years. She is a believer in Christ and is a member of Watoto Church in Uganda, where she volunteers with the prayer and counseling ministry and is also the interim leader of the Health sector sphere at Watoto church.
She is the current national executive chairman of the Uganda Christian Medical Fellowship as well as the Chairman of the ICMDA East African Regional Committee.
As a medical professional, Dr. Mugaba approaches her work with care and precision, and is passionate about teaching and mentoring students and young professionals in the profession and in their faith in the LORD.
Dr Papa Ataro
ICMDA East Africa Regional Representative
Conference Planning Committee Chair
Dr Lindael Mlay
ICMDA East Africa Area Representative
Dr Joseph Nkuranga
CMF-Kenya Chairperson
Joseph Nkuranga is a medical doctor based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a born-again Christian and is currently Chairman of the Board of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) in Kenya. Joseph works at the University of Nairobi where he is involved in research projects in the Department of Clinical and Therapeutic Medicine and previously led clinical teams in public health projects in various non-governmental organizations supporting care in faith-based, public and private health facilities across the country. He is married to the beautiful Judy and together they have two handsome, energetic boys.
Dr Elichilia Shao
Breakout Speaker
He is a born again Christian, Chair CMDA Tanzania Chapter, Church elder at Haggai Interdenominational English service at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Mentor, Father, Husband, and friend.
Physician and Microbiologist trained in Tanzania, USA, and UK working at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Kilimanjaro teaching hospital, Tanzania. He has experience of teaching and clinical work for more than 15years mainly infectious diseases. He has more than 40- publications in peer reviewed journals with five public health educational books. Currently doing his PhD on One Health titled “Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Reducing an Emerging Health Threat in Tanzania. “
He is very passionate about public health education through radio, books, television, social media and one on one to make sure that we reduce the load from physicians shoulder by educating people to be able to own their health. Through different platforms he has managed to mentor more than 1,000 medical professionals within and outside Tanzania to pass on the mantle.
He has received several awards: forgarty international fellowship award, Bill and Melinda travel award, THRiVE Msc awards, Prof Ben Hamel award best publication award, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University Award of outstanding publications, Hepatitis B Vaccination champion award, and COVID-19 vaccination ambassador
Dr Augustin Lutakwa
ICMDA AEO for Sub-Sahara Africa
AEO for Sub-Saharan Africa
Augustin was born in the DR Congo and trained as a General Surgeon in South Africa where he now lives and works. He serves as an Associate Executive Officer (AEO) for ICMDA Sub-Saharan Africa, where he promotes the mission, vision and core values of ICMDA among students and junior graduates. He was also the Congress Director for the 17th ICMDA World Congress held in Arusha, Tanzania in 2023.
Dr Alex Bolek
ICMDA Regional Secretary
Alex Bolek, is a General Practitioner (GP) with Masters in Public and Tropical Health (MPH)
He is ICMDA’s Africa Coordinator and East Africa Regional Secretary since 2017.
Alex is also the chairman of South Sudan Christian Medical and Dental Association (CMDA-SS)
He is on the board of a number of Christian organisations such as the Scripture Union of South Sudan (SUSS), Fellowship of Christian University Students (FOCUS), ACORD and others.
Alex has a passion for leadership development and is an alumnus of both Haggai International (HI) Leadership Institute and John Maxwell Million Leaders Mandate.
For over ten (10) years, Alex has served with both MOH and international NGOs such as Jhpiego, Healthnet TPO, St. Vincent De Paul Society in different managerial and technical roles implementing public health and humanitarian programs.
Alex has contributed to three (3) books authored by Rev. Colin Salter (UK).
He and his wife Helen founded Timothy School, a community Christian faith-based school and Rock City Medical Centre in Juba, South Sudan.
