Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery

MBChB (University of Nairobi, Kenya)/ MMed General Surgery (University of Nairobi, Kenya)/ FCS CTS(ECSA)/ Fellowship in Pediatric and Congenital Surgery (Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand). Languages spoken: English, Kiswahili Read More

Dr. Awori is a pediatric and congenital cardiac surgeon at the Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital (GCH) since 2013. He did his early cardiac surgery training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Sydney, Australia), before completing his paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery training at Starship Children’s Hospital, in Auckland, New Zealand in 2012.

At GCH, he is part of the team that runs the paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery (PCCS) service where they perform most types of cardiac surgery. He is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Surgery at the University of of Nairobi. Dr Awori has an interest in optimizing PCCS services and in surgical education.

MBChB (University of Nairobi, Kenya). MMed Paed and Child health (University of Nairobi,Kenya). Fellowship in Paediatric Clinical and Interventional Cardiology (Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, The Madras Medical Mission, Chennai, India)

Languages spoken: English, Kiswahili

Dr. Martin is a resident Paediatric Cardiologist at The Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital (GCH) since 2020 following completion of Fellowship training in India though has been at the facility since 2009 having joined as a Medical officer and underwent post graduate and subspeciality training while associated with our facility. At GCH, he currently runs cardiac specialist care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The outpatient reviews involve weekly clinics where new patients referred from any of our outpatient clinics, as well as external referrals from different hospitals and private clinics/practitioners, are reviewed having presented with various cardiac symptoms. The clinic also serves various follow up patients from this screening process as well as post discharge patients managed for various related conditions including post cardiac surgery. Many of his post cardiac surgery patients were indeed operated on at our facility by our multidisciplinary teams and continue to receive care as necessary for their various post op status. He does also follow up external cases managed at other facilities or on return after seeking care abroad. Inpatient services include reviews of patients with incidental or overt symptoms suggestive of cardiac disease or involvement for patients with various medical or surgical conditions being attended to in our facility. He manages a broad range of cases with our medical teams including sick neonates, septic patients, patients with severe respiratory symptoms, acute myocarditis/ cardiomyopathy, kawasaki’s disease, acute rheumatic fever, acute heart failure. And also carries out pre-op cardiac screening where indicated for other surgical disciplines. We have an active cardiac surgical program that started in 2014 and has since had consistent growth since then. Dr Martin does cardiac screening involving examination and imaging, assessing all congenital cardiac structural lesions which are then discussed with the broader cardiac team involving fellow cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, anaesthetists and intensivist. He then plans and preps the patients for heart surgery, carries out post op intensive care with the intensive care team to the point of discharge with a follow up plan for long term care. We have been in collaboration with an external cardiac team to build technical capacity in our facility that has borne fruit seeing us do more complex cases with good results. Our past cases have included repair of Atrial septal defects, Ventricular septal defects, Tetralogy of fallot, Cor triatrium, Coarctation of the aorta, AV canal defects, Rheumatic valve repair and replacement and more recently Common arterial trunk repair. Palliative cases have involved Pulmonary artery banding, Glenn shunts and BTT shunts. Dr Martin has a particular interest in less invasive interventions for congenital structural heart disease and as part of our facility’s future plans we have Catheterization lab facilities currently under development.