Chemical Pathology Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Daniel W. Maina, MBCHB, MMED, Dip (STI), FCPath (ECSA)
Assistant Professor
Dr Daniel Maina, a Consultant Clinical pathologist, completed his medical school training at the University of Nairobi in 1994, followed by a post-graduate diploma in STIs from the same university and specialist training at the Aga Khan University. He was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Pathologists East, Central and Southern Africa (FCPATH ECSA) in 2016. His current engagement is in chemical pathology where he provides consultancy services as a laboratory medicine specialist, and has introduced several new assays in the test menu. He has been instrumental in the introduction of the Point of Care Testing program in the hospital and heads the committee that oversees the implementation of this service. His research interests are in the areas of metabolic diseases, molecular medicine, and antimicrobial resistance. He is a member of the Kenya Association of Clinical Pathologists where he serves in the scientific committee and editorial board of the association’s scientific journal and is a member of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
Dr Maina is also a Consultant Pathologist at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
Publications
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Urolithiasis analysis in a multi-ethnic population at a tertiary hospital in Nairobi, Kenya
Wathigo, Francis K., Alfred Hayombe, and Daniel Maina. BMC research notes 10.1 (2017): 158.
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Maina D, Revathi G, Whitelaw AC. Molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli harbouring extended spectrum beta-lactamases and carbapenemases genes at a tertiary hospital, Kenya. Microbiologia Medica. 2017 Dec 30;32(4).
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Omuse, G., Maina, D., Hoffman, M., Mwangi, J., Wambua, C., Kagotho, E., ... & Erasmus, R. (2017). Metabolic syndrome and its predictors in an urban population in Kenya: a cross sectional study. BMC endocrine disorders, 17(1), 37.
Dr Geoffrey Omuse
Associate Professor
Dr Omuse completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Nairobi in 2005 and Masters of Medicine in Clinical Pathology from Aga Khan University, Medical College of East Africa in 2011. He is a fellow of the College of Pathologists East, Central and Southern Africa and is currently enrolled for a PhD in Chemical Pathology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Dr. Omuse is the Kenyan representative in the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) task force for young scientists and the current Chairman of the Kenya Association of Clinical Pathologists. He is a member of the Aga Khan University research committee and also chairs the Department of Pathology Quality Improvement and Patient Safety committee.
Dr Omuse has various research interests and has been part of multicenter / multi-country research projects including the global reference interval project conducted by the IFCC committee on reference intervals and decision limits (C-RIDL) where he was the project lead for Kenyan part of the study. He is also a co-investigator in the Pregnancy Care Integrating translation Science, Everywhere (PRECISE) study funded by the Research Council UK that seeks to provide insight into the most prevalent complications of pregnancy in Sub‐Saharan Africa.
Dr Omuse is also a Consultant Pathologist at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
Publications
Omuse G, Maina D, Mwangi J, Wambua C, Radia K, Kanyua A, et al. Complete blood count reference intervals from a healthy adult urban population in Kenya. Plos one 2018;1–19.
Omuse G, Maina D, Mwangi J, Wambua C, Kanyua A, Kagotho E, et al. Comparison of equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate in screening for chronic kidney disease in asymptomatic black Africans: a cross-sectional study. BMC Nephrology; 2017;18:369.
Omuse G, Maina D, Hoffman M, Mwangi J, Wambua C, Kagotho E, Amayo A, Ojwang P, Premji Z, Ichihara K, Erasmus R: Metabolic syndrome and its predictors in an urban population in Kenya: A cross-sectional study. BMC Endocr Disord 2017, 17
