Dr. Rashmi Kumar was one of the first pediatric intensivists in Kenya and instrumental in starting Kenya’s first Pediatric Critical Care Unit in the largest public tertiary care hospital in the country. Dr. Kumar was one of the key motors in starting the Fellowship Program in Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care at University of Nairobi/Kenyatta National Hospital.

Dr. Reel obtained his Medical Doctorate from Boston University School of Medicine and then underwent Paediatric residency training at Miami Children’s Hospital. He spent the following three years at the University of California, San Francisco, in Paediatric Critical Care sub-specialty fellowship. He holds American Board Certification in both Paediatrics and Paediatric Critical Care. On completion of his training in critical care, Dr. Reel worked in London with the Children’s Acute Transport Service and at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the Paediatric and Cardiac Intensive Care Units. He gained experience in Anaesthesia at King’s College Hospital and Paediatric trauma at The Royal London Hospital. Dr Reel is a Lecturer in Paediatric Critical Care at the University of Nairobi, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and consults for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s MP Shah Hospital.

Dr. Mukokinya Kailemia is a Pediatric Intensivist and Emergency Specialist at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). She completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at the University of Nairobi. She is involved in running the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of KNH where she reviews and manages critically ill patients in addition to training nurses, medical officers, pediatric registrars, pediatric emergency clinical officers and pediatric emergency critical care fellows. She also chairs the pediatric medical errors/ risk management committee and continuous medical education committee at the KNH. She is passionate about research, training and quality improvement of pediatric critical care in Kenya.

Arianna Shirk is currently a Pediatric Consultant at AIC Kijabe Hospital and is the head of the Inpatient Medical Subdivision. She graduated from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2007 after spending a year study the interaction of culture and medicine in Taiwan as a Luce Scholar. She completed her Pediatrics Residency, a chief resident year, and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship training at the University of Alabama-Birmingham from 2007-2014. Since moving to Kenya, she and her colleagues have cofounded the Fellowship for Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care through University of Nairobi as well as a diploma level training program for clinical officers in Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care through Kijabe College of Health Sciences. She holds Adjunct faculty positions at University of Alabama-Birmingham and Wake Forest University in pediatric emergency medicine and at Kabarak University and Kijabe College of Health Sciences in Pediatrics.

Credentials: Associate Professor in Pediatrics/Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Adjunct Associate Professor in Global Health, University of Washington (UW) and Seattle Children’s

Dr. von Saint Andre – von Arnim is a Pediatric Intensivist at Seattle Children’s. Her academic focus is to improve outcomes of critically-ill children in limited-resource settings through education, research and advocacy. She has been involved in the development and implementation of the PECC fellowship since its inception, and serves as the UW director of PECC-Kenya activities.

Dr. Emily Hartford is faculty in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington and works primarily in the Seattle Children’s ED. She completed her pediatric residency, pediatric ED fellowship, and global health MPH at UW. She lived and worked in Maputo, Mozambique directing an academic partnership to strengthen pediatric education and clinical care at Maputo Central Hospital and has worked in collaborative educational partnerships in Kenya and Liberia. She joined the PECC Kenya team in 2017 and works on the PEM curriculum as well as quality improvement and research mentoring.

Dr. Moher is an Emergency Medicine Attending at Seattle Children’s and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and an MPH in community health and global health at the University of Texas School of Health Sciences in Houston. He completed a pediatric residency with a certificate in global health at Children’s National Medical Center, a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine and global health at Baylor and Texas Children’s Hospital, and an additional fellowship in emergency ultrasound at Boston University. His academic work focuses on the urgent and emergent care of children in resource limited settings and the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in pediatrics in both local and global settings. This work has included the development of general pediatric, pediatric emergency medicine, emergency ultrasound curricula both in resource limited countries and in partnership with national and international organizations.