This academic lecture will make us understand the challenges of taking care of children as a paediatric anesthesiologist.

We have a seasoned guest speaker to deliver the lecture.

Dr Zipporah Gathuya is an Internationally renowned Paediatric Anaesthesiologist with more than twenty years of experience both in the public and private sector and currently venturing into Public Health, focusing on access to safe, affordable, and high-quality anaesthesia and surgery, especially for children.

She is a member of the Global Medical Advisory Board for Smile Train and the secretary of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery.

She is passionate about education and safety in paediatric anaesthesia and was instrumental in the setting up and running of the Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowship at the University of Nairobi, the first of its kind in East and Central Africa.

She is currently involved in the Paediatric Anaesthesia Training in Africa (PATA), which is running Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellowships in Uganda, Zambia and Nigeria while also aiming to improve paediatric anaesthesia skills for all anaesthesia providers for children in Africa.

She is currently working as a Paediatric Anaesthesiologist at The Nairobi Hospital, Kenya.