Getting to know: Emily Nyamu

Tackling challenges with compassion and determination in equal measures

Dr Emily N. Nyamu-Muriuki, BDS, MDS-OMFS, FCCS (India) practices maxillofacial surgery at Nyeri Provincial General Hospital in Nyeri, Kenya. She is a graduate of the University of Nairobi School of Dentistry. Additionally, she completed an externship in cleft lip and palate genetics at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, US, a fellowship in cleft and craniofacial surgery at India and Jubilee Mission Hospital in Thrissur, India, and an AO Fellowship with Dr Michael Ehrenfeld at the University of Munich, in Munich, Germany.

Since last year, she has been active in AO CMF as both a national faculty member and a course chair.