East Africa board member
Senior lecturer, department of surgery University of Nairobi, Kenya. Breast and Endocrine Surgeon.
Regional Committee
Dr. Proscovia Mugaba
Breakout Speaker
Dr. Proscovia Mugaba is a Christian medical doctor from Uganda. She currently the Chairperson of the National Executive of the Uganda Christian Medical Fellowship (UCMF), which is affiliated with ICMDA.
She completed her medical degree (MBChB) at Makerere University in Uganda in 2003. She subsequently completed her training in general pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and has recently completed her training at the University of Alberta to become a fetal cardiologist. With her scope of experience and training, she is eager to support initiation and advancement of organized fetal cardiology services in Uganda. She is a clinician, a researcher and a medical advocate. She is passionate about mentoring students and other health professionals in Uganda, with the goal of improving the quality and scope of medical training in Uganda, to serve the people of Uganda.
She is married, and together with her husband they have been blessed with two sons. She has been involved with the UCMF since her days as a medical student, and she has served on the UCMF Executive committee in various capacities including as Students’ Liaison Committee member since 2007, and through this engagement played a key role in establishing the UCMF National Students’ Chapter that was launched in 2012.
Dr Papa Ataro
ICMDA East Africa Regional Representative
Conference Planning Committee Chair
Dr Lindael Mlay
ICMDA East Africa Area Representative
Dr Joseph Nkuranga
Plenary & Breakout Speaker
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
Breakout & Pre-conference Speaker
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
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.