Dr Benjamin W. Wachira

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Founding Director of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation.

Dr Benjamin W. Wachira is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi and the Founding Director of the Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation.

He serves on the board of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) and is currently the president-elect. He is an associate editor for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine.

He obtained his Diploma in Primary Emergency Care from the College of Emergency Medicine of South Africa in 2007. Subsequently, he pursued his Masters in Medicine specialising in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

He was admitted as a Fellow of the College of Emergency Medicine of South Africa in October 2011. 

Dr Wachira has published several journal articles which reflect his research interests in the development of evidence-based universal emergency care in Kenya.