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Theme: Be Your Brother’s Keeper

Gal 6:2- Bear one another’s burdens….

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho

West Africa Regional Secretary

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho joined CMDA in Nigeria as a student (then known as National Conference of Christian Medical and Dental Students - NCCMDS)  in 1995; four years later he was elected the national vice-president of the students.

As a doctor, he served as the student and junior graduates representative for ICMDA West Africa between 2006 and 2012, and has been in charge of professional development in CMDA Nigeria since 2020.

He is an elder in the Chapel of Faith, University of Jos where he leads the discipleship training committee, teaches young believers' classes, as well as overseeing the teenagers' church.

Courage is a senior lecturer in the University of Jos College of Health Sciences and a consultant rheumatologist with the Jos University Teaching Hospital. He is a fellow of both the West African College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has a masters degree in clinical epidemiology and is pioneering postgraduate rheumatology training in North Central Nigeria.

He is married to Aderonke, a paediatrician, and they are blessed with four children.

Dr Pinkie Bala-Mbambisa

Dr Pinkie Bala-Mbambisa

Dr Pinkie Bala -Mbambisa a recently retired Specialist Family. Physician with special interest in child health, Anaesthesia ,Travel and Preventive Medicine.
Married -for 50 years to  Zweli also a retired gynecologist .
Blessed with 3 children and 3 grandchildren .Now have 2 daughters , our only son passed on to Glory August 2018
Founder and president of Woman of Virtue, a women's mentoring organisation  helping women to achieve balance in their lives and reach their full God given potential
Board member of various professional and community organisations including Daily Bread children’s Home that caters,loves and empower the vulnerable and abandoned and also of Focus of the Family -Africa
Active member of our local  Business Woman's Association and previous recipient of its Best Award in the Professional Category 2011
Previously involved with my husband in a mentoring  program for Christian medical  students at WSU helping them to hold on to their faith in a rapidly changing world.
Provincial coordinator for MWASA
Medical Women Association of S.A.
Passionate about family issues,women issues,leadership development ,preventative health and community development .
A lover of Jesus and His Kingdom .Presently enrolled in a Christian Bioethics course with ICMDA

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho

West Africa Regional Secretary

Dr Courage Uhunmwangho joined CMDA in Nigeria as a student (then known as National Conference of Christian Medical and Dental Students - NCCMDS)  in 1995; four years later he was elected the national vice-president of the students.

As a doctor, he served as the student and junior graduates representative for ICMDA West Africa between 2006 and 2012, and has been in charge of professional development in CMDA Nigeria since 2020.

He is an elder in the Chapel of Faith, University of Jos where he leads the discipleship training committee, teaches young believers' classes, as well as overseeing the teenagers' church.

Courage is a senior lecturer in the University of Jos College of Health Sciences and a consultant rheumatologist with the Jos University Teaching Hospital. He is a fellow of both the West African College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has a masters degree in clinical epidemiology and is pioneering postgraduate rheumatology training in North Central Nigeria.

He is married to Aderonke, a paediatrician, and they are blessed with four children.

Dr Michelle Meiring

Dr Michelle Meiring

Dr Michelle Meiring is a Palliative Care Paediatrician based in Cape Town South Africa. She has worked in NGO and Academic sectors since qualifying as a Paediatrician in 2002.
It was while training in Paediatrics at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto during the height of the AIDS pandemic, that she felt God’s call to work in the field of Palliative Care for children. Her first NGO, called CHOMP (Children’s Homes Outreach Medical Programme) focused on HIV related issues in the Johannesburg children’s homes ranging from PEP for abandoned babies to adoptions, training of caregivers, hospice and palliative care. With its return to work in hospitals, CHOMP was renamed Bigshoes (medical interventions that enabled Orphaned and Vulnerable Children to grow up to fill big shoes) and expanded to Durban and Cape Town. Michelle moved to Cape Town in 2009, also to help set up a Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Palliative Care at the University of Cape Town. She still convenes this Diploma in addition to being the CEO of Paedspal NGO. Paedspal provides specialist Paediatric Palliative Care services to children in both public and private hospitals in the city and is also involved in training and capacity building in the field. Michelle is a passionate advocate for children’s rights and has been involved in many advocacy and policy making initiatives during her career culminating in being part of a steering committee who developed a national palliative care policy for South Africa. Her UCT work has provided opportunities to engage with child health care professionals across Africa. She hopes to focus more on this and on research going forward. Michelle has been a member of CMF since her student days and is now a director of CMF South Africa. Having benefitted immensely as a CMF member as a student, she enjoys giving back and providing mentorship to medical students at UCT. Outside of medicine, she loves being outdoors and doing anything creative (from baking to painting and woodwork).