SPEAKER PROFILES:

Dr Manel Haj Mansour

Manel Haj Mansour is a consultant physician and board certified medical oncologist currently working at the Aga Khan University Hospital. She was formerly a consultant medical oncologist at Texas Cancer Centre, Nairobi and also worked as a consultant medical oncologist and a lecturer at Abderrahmen University Hospital, Tunisia.

Dr. Mansour graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis in 2012 and completed medical oncology residency in 2017.

She holds:
·       A certificate of completion of Oncologic Science Course on line in Breast Cancer
Treatments from The Africa Breast University.
·       A certificate of medical oncology training on XXXIIth course antitumor
chemotherapy and cancer medical treatment at Gustave Roussy Institute Paris, France.
·       A post graduate certificate in Prevention and Palliative Care in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse.
·       A post graduate certificate in Thoracic Oncology, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis.
·       A post graduate certificate in Breast Disease, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis.
She is a member of ESMO, ASCO, STOM (Tunisian Society of Medical Oncology) and KESHO. Her areas of interest include breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, gynecological and genitourinary cancers.

Dr Kevin Makori

Kevin Makori is a Clinical Oncologist at the International Cancer Institute Care and Research Clinic (ICI-CRC), Eldoret Kenya. He is involved in cancer patient care and several ongoing immunooncology and haematology clinical trials as a sub investigator at ICI, under the mentorship of his PI and Director, Prof Chite Asirwa.

He also heads the Education and Training Office at the Institute, and is involved in teaching and coordination of various oncology capacity building activities.

Dr Makori is a member of the Kenya Society of Haematology and Oncology (KESHO), a Global LMIC Associate (Non-Training) Member of the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and ASCO. He is a Junior Associate Editor of the RCR’s Clinical Oncology Journal and a current beneficiary of the Journal’s Junior Assistant Editor Mentorship Programme.

He is a visiting Clinical Oncologist at Tenwek Hospital and a member of the Hospital’s oncology multidisciplinary team.

His key professional interests are in radiation sciences, immuno-oncology, clinical trials and oncology education.

He received his postgraduate training (MMed Clinical Oncology) at Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences, a program domiciled at Tanzania’s national oncology referral centre, Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar es Salaam.

Moderator: Dr Hilda Mubisi 

Hilda Mubisi is a Clinical Oncologist based at the Kakamega Teaching and Referral Hospital.

She holds a Bachelor’s of Medicine and Surgery from Moi University and a Masters in clinical Oncology and nuclear medicine from Alexandria University – Egypt.

Dr Mubisi has interest in breast, colon and gynecological cancers.