Dr. Andrew Were Onyino is a senior postgraduate student at the University of Nairobi (UoN) in the Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery thematic unit of the Department of Surgery at the College of Health Sciences (CHS).
His leadership and advocacy prowess came to the fore during his undergraduate days when he was elected 2007-2008 Chairman of the Association of Medical Students of the University of Nairobi (AMSUN) and in 2008 he co-founded and served as the first President of the Medical Students Association of Kenya (MSAKE). He graduated from UoN in 2008 and in 2011/2012 was instrumental in the establishment of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists (KMPDU) for which he served as Secretary General in 2012-2013.
Dr Were has also championed for the welfare of doctors and provision of quality healthcare in Kenya through the Kenya Medical Association (KMA) and has served in different capacities at KMA from 2009 culminating in his election as President of the association in June 2020.
He is also a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Daktari Media Africa LLC the organization that runs Daktari Online, a leading online medical resource portal serving more than 5,000 doctors and which aims to provide quality medical education content for Health Care Practitioners (HCPs) in East Africa.
We would like to congratulate him for his election as KMA President 2020-2022 and we wish him all the best in the new assignment.
2020-2022: KMA President
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