Nuclear Medicine and PET-CT Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Dr Khalid Makhdomi, MBBS, DNB (Nuclear Medicine)
Assistant Professor and Chair
Dr Khalid Makhdomi is the Chair, Department of Radiology at the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa.
Dr Khalid Makhdomi is an Assistant Professor and did his residency in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Bombay (India). Dr Makhdomi has been associated with the Nuclear Medicine section in the department since its inception in 2008 and played a major role in setting up the Unit. Before that, he was working at the Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Centre in Nairobi since 1998, where he was instrumental in setting up the first full-fledged Nuclear Medicine unit in the country. Since joining the department, he has overseen the successful implementation of the Cyclotron and PET-CT services in his section, the first such facility in the region, and high dose Nuclear Medicine therapy. Under his leadership the section also started a fellowship programme in Nuclear Medicine, the first in the region.
Dr Makhdomi had a long stint as the Radiology Program Director from 2008 to 2017. During that period, he also chaired the departmental committee that reviewed the Radiology PGME curriculum. He was the Chair of the departmental committee which wrote the curriculum for the Bachelor of Imaging Sciences degree course that the department is planning to start. He is a member of several other committees in the department as well as the hospital Radiation Safety Committee.
In 2019, Dr Makhdomi took the role of Vice-Chair of the department and from January 2024 he has been the interim Chair and during this period as interim Chair, he has helped further the department’s academic, clinical and research mandate.
Dr Makhdomi is also a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
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Dr Samuel Nguku, MBChB, MMed (Diagnostic Radiology)
Assistant Professor
Dr Samuel Nguku is an Assistant Professor at Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa. He has a Bachelor’s of Medicine and Surgery degree from Moi University, Master of Medicine in Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology from AKUH, Nairobi and fellowship training in nuclear medicine from Imperial College NHS Trust, London UK (2017). Dr. Nguku’s clinical and research interests are in oncology imaging using conventional imaging modalities (CT and MRI) as well as PET CT and has been instrumental in setting up of PET CT service at AKUH,N. He is an active member of the hospital multidisciplinary tumour board and the section head of CT and body imaging, AKUH, N.
Dr Nguku is also a Consultant CT and Body Imaging at The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. Read more about him HERE
