Wendy Spearman
MBChB, FCP, FRCP, MMed, PhD
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Conference on Liver Disease in Africa (COLDA) 2018
Organizing Committee
The members of the Organizing Committee (OC) are a group of carefully selected experts and inspirational leaders in their respective fields. They come together on a frequent basis to discuss the scientific program of the workshop, identify interesting topics and candidate speakers and review all submitted abstracts.
Elijah Songok
MD, PhD
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
Jürgen Rockstroh
MD
University of Bonn, Germany
Olufunmilayo Lesi
MD, MBA, FWACP, FMCP
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Peter Olupot-Olupot
MD, MPH, PhD
Busitema University, Uganda
Mark Nelson
MA, MBBS, FRCP
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital / Imperial College Medical School, United Kingdom
Maud Lemoine
MD, PhD
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Manal Hamdy El-Sayed
MD, PhD
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Kosh Agarwal
MD
King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom
Scientific Committee
To augment the organizing committee, the following are scientific committee members
- Mary Afihene, MBChB, FWACP – Kwame Nkrumah University, Ghana
- Geoffrey Dusheiko, MBBCh, FCP, FRCP - Kings College Hospital, UK
- Alice Guingané, MD, MPH - Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso
- Emmanuel Musabeyezu, MD, FCP – King Faisal Hospital, Rwanda
- Gibril Ndow, MD – Imperial College London, Gambia
- John Rwegasha, MBChB, M.MED, FRCP, MSc - Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania
- Edford Sinkala, MD, PhD - University Teaching Hospital / University of Zambia, Zambia
- Sonjelle Shilton, MPH - Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Switzerland
- Christian Tzeuton, MD – Douala Medical School / Société Camerounaise de Gastro-Enterologie, Cameroon