Family Medicine

Colin is originally from South Africa. He completed his medical school in 1993 at University of Witwaterand. He has postgraduate degrees in Family Medicine and Public Health from the University of Southern African and University of Western Cape respectively. He has been in Malawi since 2010 and currently works for […]

Sue is originally from the United States of America. She completed her medical school at the University of Florida in 1983. She has several postgraduate qualifications in Tropical Medicine. She has been in Africa since 1989, working in the Democratic Republic of Congo until 1998 when she moved to Malawi. […]

Luckson is originally from Malawi. Completed his Medical school in 2001. He also holds a Postgraduate degree in Family Medicine from the University of Free State completed in 2008. He works with Partners In Health and is based in Neno. He is a founding Head of Department for Family Medicine […]

Reynier is originally from South Africa. He is a medical doctor at Nkhoma Hospital where he has been for over 20 years. He completed his medical school at Free State University in South Africa in 1989. He also holds a Masters in Public Health from the College of Medicine which […]

Ruth has been in Malawi since 2011 and she is based in Mulanje. She completed her Medical school in 1978. She is also a specialist in the fields of Paediatrics and Public Health. Her role is to provide supervision to the COM students on Family medicine attachments 3-4 times in […]

Barbara is originally from the Netherlands. She joined the department in 2015. She completed her medical school in Amsterdam in 1997. She has postgraduate degrees in Tropical Medicine International Health (1999) and Family Medicine (2005) from the Netherlands. She currently works at the College and Beit Cure and her roles […]

Anna is originally from the United States of America. She joined the department in 2015 and is based in Mangochi. She completed her Medical degree at University of North Carolina in 2011. She completed her postgraduate studies in Public Health at Harvard University and did Family Medicine residency at Swedish […]

Senior Advisor of the Department – Dr. Makwero is a Malawian Family Doctor. She has been a Lecturer with the Department at the Malawi College of Medicine since 2012. Prior to joining the Malawi College of Medicine, she worked as the Director of the Family Medicine Specialty Training Program, Lesotho-Boston […]

Head of Department Family Medicine – A family doctor, originally from the United States, John joined the Department in July 2015. He completed family medicine postgraduate training in 2013 at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA), and completed a health policy fellowship in Washington, DC in 2014 prior to moving […]

Jane Bates BSc, MBChB, MRCGP, MPhil (Pall Med) Coming from a background of family medicine training in the UK, Jane has worked in Africa for over 15 years. After working in South Africa she moved to Malawi in 2002 where she has set up adult palliative medicine services and related […]