Wahu Gitaka

Senior Instructor
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Telephone: 254 020 3662108

Education

Master of Medicine in Paediatrics University of Nairobi 2006
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery University of Nairobi 1992

Training

Dip (University of Oxford, UK)2016
PG Dip (University of Cape Town School of Child and Adolescent Health, South Africa) 2013

Current areas of teaching

Infectious Diseases:
Infectious Syndrome, Therapeutics and Infection control, Bacterial; Viral Fungal and Prion infections, The immunocompromised host + HIV, Tropical diseases, Protozoa and mycobacterial diseases, Travel medicine and diseases in the travel host, immunity, immunization and vaccines.

Research interests

Paediatric infectious diseases
Tropical diseases
Travel medicine
Global health

Experience

Full time Faculty, Aga Khan University in Nairobi 2012–Date
Consultant Paediatrician, African Infectious Disease Hospital, Mbirikani, 2010-2012
Hospital Paediatrician, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, 2008-2009
Senior Registrar, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, 2006-2008
Senior House Officer, Gertrude's Children's Hospital, 1995-2002
Senior House Officer, Pumwani Maternity Hospital, 1994-1995

Professional associations

Kenya Paediatric Association
Allergy Society of Kenya
European Society of Paediatric Infectious Disease

Created on:04/26/2016 Last modified:05/30/2023

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