Profile - DR ELKANA MONGARE ONSOMU

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PERSONAL DETAILS

Designation: LECTURER
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Job Category: Teaching
Division / Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences
Directorate / Dept: DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY
Section: NAKURU CITY CAMPUS
Address: 14948 - 20100, Nakuru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

YEAR INSTITUTION QUALIFICATION

2000-2003 University of Nairobi Master in Medicine (Ophthalmology)

1990-1996 University of Nairobi Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

2006 East African College Fellowship in ophthalmology of Ophthalmology (EACO)

2006 Kenya Institute of Management Diploma in Human Resource

1988-1989 Moi Forces Academy KACE 15 Points

1984-1987 Moi Forces Academy KCE 15 Points

1983 Dr.Living Primary School CPE

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

INTERNSHIP EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1996 - 1997- Internship Nakuru Provincial General Hospital

1997- 2002- Senior Medical Officer Nakuru Provincial General Hospital

2003 - 2008 (i) Consultant Ophthalmologist Kericho District Hospital

(ii) Part time Private Practice offering curative and Optical services in Kericho Town

2008 - 2012 Consultant Ophthalmologist and in - charge Provincial General Hospital Nakuru eye Unit

2012 - Date Lecturer Egerton University, Faculty of Health Sciences

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Cataract surgical services, outcome and barriers in Kericho, Bureti and Bomet Districts, Kenya 2008

CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Attended 31annual Conference of the Ophthalmologist Society of East Africa and presented a research paper titled: Strabismus as seen in Children aged 3-5 years in Nairobi City Council Nursery School in 2003.
Defended a dissertation paper at Kenya Institute of Management titled “The need for counselling services at Healthcare providers in Kenya” In the year 2006
Attended Afro-German Eye Net summer school in Munich -9^th -20^th 2006
Attended a course in the Needs of Childhood Blindness for Vision 2030 in Africa at Kilimanjaro Center for Community Ophthalmologist in 3^rd -7^th October 2011
I am a member of Kenya National Ophthalmic Workshop
(KNOW) and ophthalmological Society of Eastern Africa(OSEA) and I have attended their respective yearly Conferences since 2003.

TEACHING AREAS

OTHER SOCIETIES

1. Kenya Medical Association

2.Ophthalmological society of Eastern Africa

3. Kenya National Ophthalmic workshop