Launch of UoN &Smile Train partnership

The world’s largest cleft organization, Smile Train, together with University of Nairobi Department of Surgery will tomorrow, 11th January 2022 from 2:30 pm at sign a Memorandum of Understanding at the University of Nairobi, Towers, 19th Floor to launch full scholarships to medical residents based in Africa to study plastic and reconstructive surgery.
The signing will be witnessed by Dr. Esther Njoroge-Muriithi, Senior Vice-President Global Medical Programs at Smile Train and Prof. Stephen Kiama, Vice-Chancellor, University of Nairobi.

UoN alumna lands Chief Pathologist and Laboratory Medical Director post in US

Dr. Asha Sigei an alumna of the University of Nairobi has been appointed as the new Chief Pathologist and Medical Director of the Iredell Memorial Laboratory in the United States of America.

Her appointment was announced in a statement published on Iredell Health System website on 6th January, 2022.

She studied medicine at the University of Nairobi School of Medicine and graduated in 2010.

Dr. Sigei completed a year-long internship in Kenya before moving to the United States for further studies.