Miriam Mutebi is running for the UICC Board of Directors

Miriam Mutebi, MD, MSc, FACS, President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), has been selected as a candidate for the The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Board of Directors (2024-26)

Miriam Mutebi is a Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Mutebi has served as the Past President of the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology (KESHO). She has also been on the UICC Board of Directors (2022-24).

As a co-founder of the Pan African Women’s Association of Surgeons and a member of the Kenya Association of Women Surgeons, she passionately supports women’s education and mentorship in surgery.

Education

Miriam Mutebi earned her degree in Bachelor Of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from University of Nairobi. She completed her general surgery residency at Aga Khan University.

She subsequently did a two-year fellowship in Breast Surgical Oncology, which included a year in plastics and reconstruction at the University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa followed by a Mammadi Soudavar International Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

She was also on the Yvonne Award Committee. She also completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Systems Research at the Weill Cornell University, New York.

Awards and Honors

• 2023 Global Health Catalyst Distinguished Leadership (LMIC) Award.
• The ASCO Humanitarian Award.
• UICC Young World Cancer Leader 2016.

Interviews by Miriam Mutebi

In an interview with AKDN, Miriam Mutebi, said, “There’s also a sense of cancer fatalism, where one believes that cancer equals death, so we’re trying to shift narratives around that.”

In another interview, with the ASCO Post, she said, “When we were doing our clinical rotations, there was still a lot of stigma around HIV/AIDS, and patients were being abandoned by their families.”

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