issue 5, 2010 - British Division of the IAP

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The Inaugural East African British School of Pathology
Professor Neil A Shepherd
President-Elect, BDIAP
The Inaugural East African British School of
Pathology took place in Nairobi, Kenya between
the 5 th and 7 th of August 2009. This was
the 4 th “School of Pathology” that the BDIAP
has instituted to promote and facilitate pathological
education in disadvantaged countries
around the world. The initial Arab British School
of Pathology, established now for nearly 10
years, has been followed by Schools in Sri
Lanka and Bosnia and now in East Africa.
The School comprised a comprehensive threeday
teaching package on the pathology of the
gastro-intestinal tract. The course Facilitator
was Dr Ahmed Kalebi, our former BDIAP Fellow
in South Africa, who has now qualified to
practice independent pathology and has become
Managing Director of Lancet Kenya Limited,
a private Pathology facility in Nairobi. The
programme was co-ordinated by this author
and the lecturers were our current President,
Professor Geraint Williams, our current President-Elect,
our current Treasurer, Dr Ray
McMahon and Professor Sebastian Lucas.
The meeting took place in the Nairobi Hospital,
a private hospital in Nairobi. In total, there were
nearly 100 delegates. These derived mainly
Faculty & delegates at the Inaugural East
African British School of Pathology.
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Our President, Professor Williams, presents
Dr Ahmed Kalebi with a special gift from the
BDIAP.
from the major East African countries, Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda, but there were also
many delegates from a very considerable
distance away. Countries represented included
Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana,
Malawi, Rwanda and Burundi. There
were also many delegates from South Africa,
some travelling from Cape Town via Johannesburg
all the way to Nairobi. Interaction
between the speakers and the audience was
excellent and the social events magnificent.
The BDIAP is most grateful to Dr Ahmed
Kalebi for his energetic organisation of the
meeting. He and his colleagues are to be
particularly congratulated for providing such
excellent educational material for the meeting,
in the form of a 152 page “handout” of
abstracts, etc, and a CD containing all the
abstracts and powerpoint presentations of all
the lectures. This school is but one aspect of
our endeavours to promote and facilitate
pathological education in sub-Saharan Africa,
as Dr Alec Howat’s report elsewhere in this
Newsletter attests. The first School was enormously
successful and we look forward to the
second school in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010.