Disciple of Christ
Husband and father
Specialist in Family Medicine
Diploma in Bioethics
Diploma in Research Methodology
Theology degree (ISBAD)
ICMDA Regional Secretary for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean (CEMECA)Administrator of the Instagram and facebook page @diossabe
PROFILE
Walter Jaoko is a physician and professor of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi where he has been teaching for over 30 years. He is currently the Director of KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research at University of Nairobi, and an extraordinary professor of medicine at Stellenbosch University. He trained in medicine at University of Nairobi, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Oxford University, and in ethics at Stellenbosch University and Anahuac University. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Africa Academy of Sciences. His interests are in infectious diseases and research ethics, and has published widely in these areas.
Walter Jaoko became a follower of Christ as a teenager, and is passionate about his faith in the Lord. He is married and has 2 adult daughters.
ICMDA World Congress 2023 – Arusha Tanzania
How does one intentionally grow as a leader within healthcare?
Howard Lyons CBE
Howard started his career in healthcare management in 1972 in the British National Health Service becoming Chief Executive of the Chelsea & Westminster Teaching Hospital in Central London. After ten years, he left the NHS to work internationally in management and consultancy in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Far East for clients such as the World Bank, UN and African Development Bank as well as national government agencies, private hospitals, commercial organisations and a large number of teaching hospitals and health authorities. He has been Managing Director of a large hospital management company and Partner in a leading management consultancy firm.
In 2012, he was appointed to be the first Managing Director of Healthcare UK which was established by the British Government following the London Olympic Games to encourage and enable public and private sector organisations to share their expertise in healthcare in countries such as China, India, Brazil and the Middle East.
He retired in 2016 and is currently Treasurer of the UK’s Christian Medical Fellowship and on the Board of ICMDA since 2018. He was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours for services to healthcare management. He is married to Maura who was born in Zambia and has three grown-up children and three grandchildren.
Dr. Esther Frei is an Ophthalmologist working in Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland. She is happily married and mother of two boys.
She has been involved with ICMDA for a number of years and currently holds the position of the Associate Executive Officer in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, places where she would like to see a real revival and the different countries coming back to the roots of values, especially within the medical field.
It is her passion to see the lives of these young Christian professionals being transformed into a live testimony of God’s work!
Haniel Eller
Married to Ana and father of Gabriel.
Internal Medicine Doctor and Geriatrician, Msc, from the Federal University of Sao Paulo – Brazil.
Teacher of Elderly Care (Geriatrics), in 3 different Medical Schools in Brazil.
Has worked during Covid 19 pandemic lockdowns, participating in innovative ways of teaching medicine online.
I am born in the Netherlands in a rural village and studied medicine at the University of Rotterdam from 1969 to 1975. As preparation to work in a developing country I did one year surgery and six month obstetrics. In 1976 my wife Mies and I decided to go and work in Gelukspan hospital. This was at that time still a mission hospital but by the time we arrived at the hospital it was handed over to the homeland government.
When I started in the hospital I was the only full time doctor and I was overwhelmed by the amount of work in this hospital with over one thousand beds. I found more than 300 TB patients who stayed for 6 months in the hospital and who were referred from a very large area in the Western Transvaal and Northern Cape. These patients were mostly managed by the nurses with a visit once a month from a TB doctor from Johannesburg. Then there was an institution with disabled people and a general hospital. I had to learn a lot, both from nurses and the few doctors who did sessions in the hospital!
In the years that I worked there I developed a keen interest in PHC and the most effective way to deliver health services to the community despite apartheid and poverty in the area when it was drought stricken in the 80’s.
Thereafter I worked at Medunsa in the nutrition unit and department of Family Medicine for 3 years. In 1990 we went back to the Netherlands and we had a family medicine practice in Leerdam until 2010. From 2010 I got a job at the department of Family Medicine at UP and my main task is the training of Clinical Associates and supervision of the district health rotation of the medical students. From 2017 I am involved in palliative care and developing CPD training and teaching material for district hospitals. I have retired from the university in 2022.
I am happily married for 48 years with Mies and all these years we have lived and worked together. We have 4 boys, 3 daughters in law, 4 granddaughters and 1 grandson.
Im Jean Paul DANSOU ( official name : YAO MAWUENA DANSOU)
Married to Esse since 20 november 2004
we Have 3 chrildren : Esther ( 17) Priscilla ( 14) Stéphane ( 12)
Me and my wife found FORGIM ( in English : building a generation that can influence the World) in 2009
FORGIM Is a mission among families : training, counseling préparation for mariage seminars, couple life school, everyday Thought on family, radio brodcasting, family camp …
So we are involved in family ministry since 13 years
we had co write a Book with on of our mentor : a to
I m currently the regional secretary of ICMDA FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
I m the president of TOGO Christian Fellowship
Dr Chris Steyn is a family physician that has been serving the Lord since he became a disciple of Jesus Christ in 1976. He is married to Elize. Together they have been blessed with six children and thirteen grandchildren. His passion is to see synergy between Christian healthcare ministries for the intentional multiplication of maturing disciple makers throughout the health field globally.
Joseph Nkuranga is a medical doctor based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a born-again Christian and currently serves as the chair of the board of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) in Kenya. Joseph works at the University of Nairobi where he is engaged in research projects at the Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics and was previously heading clinical teams in public health projects in various non-governmental organisations supporting care in faith-based, public and private health facilities across the country. He is married to the gorgeous Judy and together they have two lovely energetic boys.
Dr Mulinda Nyirenda is a Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi (formerly UNIMA-College of Medicine) and Chief Specialist in the Ministry of Health of Malawi stationed at Queen Elizabeth Central hospital. She has worked in the field of Emergency Medicine and Acute Medicine for the past 12 years – initiating academic emergency medicine programs and establishing Emergency Medicine clinical practice in the Malawian Health system. She contributes to emergency medicine education, clinical practice, mentorship programs and research of various health professionals in Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh and USA. She is a clinical researcher with an interest in acute care, infectious diseases, medical education, medical Informatics and technology, and health care systems strengthening.
She has been committed to the ICMDA family since her student years, playing a significant role in national and Southern Africa regional activities. She serves on the ICMDA board. She is passionate about mentorship and developing leaders in the workplace that shine their light and flavor their environment as salt of the world