Dr Nancy Okinda, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPath 

Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator

Dr Nancy Okinda is an Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator, Department of Pathology at the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa. Dr Okinda graduated with an MBChB degree from the University of Nairobi in 2003. After her internship, and two years serving as a Senior House Officer at the Aga Khan University Hospital and Gertrude’s Children’s hospital, she joined the Department of Clinical Pathology as a Resident. Following her four years training and obtaining a Master of Medicine in Clinical Pathology (MMed Clin Path) degree, she remained at the University, serving as an instructor and senior instructor in Clinical pathology for one year. She subsequently trained at the University of Cape Town (Groote Schuur), South Africa for one year (2011) receiving a subspecialty training in hematopathology. She is currently the resident program director in the department of pathology overseeing the running of both the anatomic and clinical pathology residency programmes. She has a keen interest in medical education and is currently pursuing her training in the same. She also has research interest in venous thromboembolism and haemato-oncology. She is a fellow of the College of Pathologist for East Central and Southern Africa, Member Kenya Association for Clinical Pathologists, Kenya Medical Association and hemato-onclogy society of Africa, Association of Pathologists of East, Central & Southern Africa (APECSA) and Kenya society of hemostasis and thrombosis.

Dr Okinda is also a Consultant Haematology Pathologist at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about her HERE

Publications

1. Abidi SH, Shahid A, Lakhani LS, Khanani MR, Ojwang P, Okinda N, Shah R, Abbas F,Rowland-Jones S, Ali S. Population-specific evolution of HIV Gag epitopes in genetically diverged patients. Infect Genet Evol. 2013 Jun;16:78-86.

2. Onsongo Simon, Abidi Syed Hani, Khamadi Samoel, Shah Reena, Kageha Sheila, Ojwang Peter, Ali Syed, and Okinda Nancy. Prevalence of Transmitted Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1-Infected Drug-Naive Patients from Urban and Suburban Regions of Kenya: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

3. Reena Shah, Hilda Nabiswa, Nancy Okinda, Gunturu Revathi, Mark Hawken, Mark Nelson Prevalence of HLA-B*5701 in a Kenyan population with HIV infection Journal of Infection Published online: September 15, 2017
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