RICHARD MACHARIA WARUINGI MBBCh (Univ Nairobi), DHA (Univ Phoenix)
PO Box 381, Haddonfield, NJ 08033, USA
Phone: 215-485-8155; 617-418-4227; 856-795-2359
macharia@kdnc.org
www.kdnc.org
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Macharia
Waruingi, MD,
DHA was trained as a physician in Kenya
and in health administration
in the United States. He came to the United States
in 1999 and after working as a
technician in neurology and neurophysiology
research, he works as a journalist,
online teacher and meeting planner.
Pharmaceutical
Industry Experience
1996-2007 Clinical trial
experience
1996-2007 Medical journal manuscript preparation
1996-2007 Preparation of documents for US New Drug Applications and for
European
regulatory authorities:
protocols for drugs for epilepsy and other neurological diseases
1999-2002 Participated in design and development of clinical research programs
as a secondary investigator at Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston,
MA
2000 Prepared a successful NIH grant proposal to work at Harvard University
on
clinical trials in neurology
1990-1994 Solicited and received funds from Ciba-Geigy biggest community
epilepsy
study in the world.
Medical Writing and Medical Editing Experience
2008- Medical
Journal of Therapeutics Africa http://mjota.org
1. The primary contributor on articles on global
health and human development
(http://www.mjota.org/macharia.html)
2. Edited articles for medical content, and for African content
2004- KDNC
website, http://kdnc.org
1. Analyzed and disseminated research
results in 5 peer-review journals.
2. Published more than 100 articles, short stories, policy analysis on the
KDNC’s
synchronous educational portal and websites including African Path, and
Business
Daily Africa.
1999 – 2002 Presented
results from neurology and neurophysiology research
(Massachusetts General
Hospital) in 3
international conferences as a
speaker and through poster presentations.
ACADemic
teaching
2008 University
of Sciences in Philadelphia
1. Gave a talk on Relevance
Paradox in Global Health Delivery.
2. Prepared poster on Discovering the Tacit Dimension of Global Health
Leadership
Using Systems Thinking presented during Research Day on April 24, 2008.
3. Prepared syllabi for medical writing courses on documentation and research.
2007 University
of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
1. Completed 6-month faculty
certification program and mentorship for
teaching online.
2. An expert in online education and distant learning using information
and communication technologies
(ICTs).
3. Approved to teach multiple courses in healthcare and basic sciences
including
a. BIO/101 Principles of Biology
b. SCI/100 Paradigms of Health
c. SCI/160 Introduction to Life Sciences
d. SCI/201 Survey of Alternative Medicine
e. SCI/220 Human Nutrition
Advocacy
through KDNC
The KDNC is an organization I formed to gather data for my doctoral thesis from
small-group conferences (10 to 20) that I convened all over the United States.
KDNC
has a worldwide paying membership of less than 40, although the mailing list
includes over 5,000 names. It is registered in New Hampshire as a 501(3)(c).
Advocacy
through KDNC
2008 Developed global call to
action for peace in Kenya
signed by more than 3,000 people
(KDNC, 2008a).
2008 Led the peace rally for Kenya
(January 2008) at the United Nations Headquarters
in Manhattan New York.
Rally was attended by several hundred, majority Kenyans (KDNC, 2008b).
2008 Led the petitioning of the United Nation’s Secretary General to intervene
for
peace in Kenya in
January 2008, following which UN Secretary General traveled to
Kenya to
intervene in the political crises (KDNC, 2008c).
2006 Elected leader of Life Science Project of the Bottom of Pyramid Learning
Lab (BOPLL),
Cornell
University (BOP LL, March
2006).
Practice
of Medicine
2002 –2007 BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, BOSTON, MA
Clinical research in neurology and neurophysiology:
Performed hundreds of
neuro-electrodiagnostic tests,
and neuro-physiological assessments including the nerve conduction studies,
evoked potentials, electroencephalograms, autonomic system testing, and
electromyography.
1999 – 2002 Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA
Clinical research in neurology and neurophysiology: In the
Epilepsy Service,
designed and developed a database for capturing clinical and
non-clinical patient
data for epidemiological analysis using Epi-info software
by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
1997-1999 Limoges University Regional Medical Center, Limoges, France
Clinical care: Supervised inpatient care as a neurology
resident.
Clinical research: Biopsied muscles and nerves under the supervision of
Professor Vallat.
Neuroelectrodiagnostic testing including the nerve conduction studies,
evoked
potentials, electroencephalograms, autonomic testing, and electromyography.
General
Medicine and Tropical Medicine
1994-1995 Kenyatta Hospital, Internship.
1995-1996 Mater Hospital, Medical officer I
1995-1996 Aga Khan Hospital, Medical Officer II, Intensive Care Unit.
1996-1997 Nairobi Hospital.
EDUCATION
1993 MB, ChB, University
of Nairobi.
1999 AFS Neurology & Dip. Tropical Neurology, University of Limoges, France.
2001 Clinical Research Fellowship-Neurophysiology, Massachusetts General
Hospital,
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
2001 Clinical Research Administration and Clinical Effectiveness Training,
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard University,
Boston Massachusetts.
2005 Leadership and Development, Society for Organizational Learning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2006 Doctoral Coursework, Doctor of Health Administration,
University of Phoenix.
2007 Faculty Certification Training, University
of Phoenix.
2008 Doctor of Health Administration, University of Phoenix.
LANGUAGES
1. English – Spoke and Written
2. French – Spoken and Written
3. Swahili – Spoken and Written
4. Kikuyu – Spoken and Written
HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS
1. World Health Organization/National Institute of Health Clinical Research
Fellowship
Award (1999-2000).
2. National Institute of Health National Research Science Fellowship Award
(2000-2001).
3. International League against Epilepsy Merritt-Putnam Clinical Research
Fellowship
Award (1998-1999).
4. Founding Chair of the Kenya
Development Network and Consortium,
Boston
Massachusetts, USA.
5. Member of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
6. Member of the American College of Physician Executives, Tampa, Florida, USA.
7. Member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
8. Member of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.
9. Member of the Kenya
Medical Association, Nairobi,
Kenya.
10. Member of the Society for Organizational Learning,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
11. Member of the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) Learning Lab, Cornell University,
Cornell New
York, USA.
12. Member of the Research Network for Tropical Neurology and Neurological
Epidemiology, Limoges, France.
13. Member of the Group on Science and Innovation Policy (GOSIP),
Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, Boston
Massachusetts, USA.
REFERENCES
Kenya
Development Network and Consortium. (2008a). Kenyans seek justice for
crimes
against humanity. Retrieved January 27, 2008, from
http://www.kdnc.org/en/art/?218
Kenya Development Network and Consortium. (2008b). A day for peace in Kenya.
Retrieved January 27, 2008, from http://www.kdnc.org/en/cev/?9.
Kenya
Development Network and Consortium. (2008c). Petitioning for peace in Kenya.
Retrieved January 27, 2008, from
http://www.kdnc.org/attachments/contentmanagers/5/petitionforpeaceinKenya.pdf
Kenya Development Network and Consortium. (2007a). KDNC education home page.
Retrieved January 27, 2008, from http://www.kdnc.org/en/cms/?288
Kenya Development Network and Consortium. (2007b). KDNC research home page.
Retrieved January 27, 2008, from http://www.kdnc.org/en/cms/?287
Kenya Development Network and Consortium. (2007c). KDNC mbes home page.
Retrieved January 27, 2008, from http://www.kdnc.org/en/cms/?293
Bottom of the Pyramid Learning Lab. (2006). Base of the pyramid learning lab
meeting highlights.
Retrieved January 29, 2008, from
http://www.bopnetwork.org/files/presentations/US/2006/spring/BOP-Meeting-Notes-0306.pdf
Transformation Processes
Open Group Large Group Processes
1. World Café Conversations
2. Cocreation techniques
3. Facilitated dialogue format
Design Processes
1. Human Centered Design Process
Research Skills
1. Quantitative philosophy (positivist approach)
a. Descriptive epidemiology; b. Inferential epidemiology
2. Qualitative philosophy
a. Grounded theory; b. Ethnography; c. Action research
Clinical skills
1. Medicine
2. Neurology
3. Neurophysiology
Writing and Publication
1. APA Fifth Edition
2. APA Fourth Edition
3. Index Medicus
4. Other writing styles specific to publications
Computer Skills
1. Windows 2007
2. Microsoft Office
a. MS Word; b. MS Power Point; c. MS Access; d. MS Excel; e. FrontPage
3. Web application
a. Managing modular content management systems; b. Managing community
management web based systems.
4. Online Learning Systems
a. University of Phoenix Online Learning System; b.
Blackboard; c. KDNC Online Course Modules; d. Angel
Selected
Publications: Abstracts and Papers
1. Waruingi,
M. (2007a). The fortune in commercialization of African biosciences.
African Path. Retrieved January 29, 2007, from
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1843
2. Waruingi, M. (2007b, April
20). KDNC-Consortium. Kenya
Empowerment
Newspaper
3. Waruingi, M. (2006a). Expanding possibilities at
the base of the pyramid by
Erik Simanis and Stuart Hart. Innovations, 1(3), 15-15.
4. Waruingi, M. (2006b). SME development and micro-finance. Paper
presented at
the WPI's Third US-Africa Business Conference. Building Partnerships for
Economic Opportunities in Africa:
The Way Forward, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute,
Worcester, MA, USA.
5. Waruingi, M. (2006c, November 30). Sustainable delivery of
healthcare in
Kenya.
Paper presented at the Year of Kenya, The Institute of Global Initiatives,
Kennesaw State
University, Kennesaw, GA, USA.
6. Waruingi, M., Macharia, B., & Theuri, J. (2005). The private
sector role in
meeting health care needs in low income markets. Paper presented at the
11th Annual Bell Conference: Sustainable Technology Development and
New Market Creation, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York.
7. Waruingi, M., & Macharia, B. (2005). Role
of capital markets, and co-creation
in creation of sustainable telehealth and telemedicine programs for developing
countries. Paper presented at the African Telehealth Convention, San Angelo,
Texas, USA.
8. Waruingi, M., Hoch, D. B., Cosgrove, G. R., & Cole, A. J. (2001).
Surgical treatment of medically refractory seizure disorders at
Massachusetts General
Hospital.
Paper presented at the American Epilepsy Society 2001 Annual Conference.
9. Waruingi, M., Hoch, D. B., Ghougassian, D., Hedley-Whyte, E. T.,
Cosgrove, R. G., & Cole, A. J. (2001). Neuropathology of surgical
epilepsy in
Massachusetts General
Hospital. Paper
presented at the Annual
Conference of Neuropathology, London,
England.
10. Kim, K., Waruingi, M., Cosgrove, R., Hoch, D. B., & Cole, A. J.
(2001).
Temporal lobe epilepsy due to pathologically proven hippocampal sclerosis
versus temporal lobe lesion: Clinical, electroencephalographic, and
neuroimaging
findings, and surgical outcome.
Paper presented at the American Epilepsy Society 2001 Annual Conference.
11. Preux, P. M., Condet, A.,
Anglade, C., Druet-Cabanac, M., Debrock, C.,
Macharia*, W., Couratier, P., Boutros-Toni, F., & Dumas, M. (2000).
Parkinson's disease and environmental factors: Matched case-control study
in Limousin region, France. Neuroepidemiology, 19(6),
333-337.
12. Pierre-Marie, P., Druet-Cabanaca, M., Couratier, P., Debrock, C., Truong,
T.,
Waruingi, M., Vallat, J.-M., Dumas, M., & Boutros-Tonia, F. (2000).
Estimation of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis incidence by capture-recapture
method in the Limousin region of France.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology,
53(10), 1025-1029
13. Druet-Cabanac, M., Preux, P.-M.,
Bouteille, B., Bernet-Bernady, P., Dunand, J.,
Hopkins, A., Yaya, G., Tabo, A., Sartoris, C., Macharia*, W., &
Dumas, M. (1999). Onchocerciasis and Epilepsy: A matched case-control
study in the Central African
Republic. Americal Journal of
Epidemiology,
149(6), 565-570.
14. Waruingi, M., Gatuma, P. N., Njagi, E. N., Waititu, J., Waruingi,
W.,
Diop, G., Dongmo, L., Grunitzky, E. K., Dumas, M., & Preux, P. M.
(1999a, April 7 -10). Etiologie de l'épilepsie en milieu tropicale :
enquete cas témoin au Kenya.
Paper presented at the Journées
Neurologiques de Langue Française, Lille,
France.
15. Waruingi, M., Gatuma, P. N., Njagi, E. N., Waititu, J., Waruingi,
W.,
Diop, G., Dongmo, L., Grunitzky, E. K., Dumas, M., & Preux, P. M.
(1999b, April 7-10). Organisations non-gouvernementales et prise en
charge de l'epilepsie dans les pays en developpement. Paper
presented at the Journées Neurologiques de Langue Française,
Lilles, France.
16. Waruingi, M., Gatuma, P. N., Njagi, E. N., Waititu, J., Waruingi,
W.,
Druet-Cabanac, M., Debrock, C., Deviere, F., Anglande, C., Dumas, M.,
& Preux, P. M. (1999, April 7-10). Etiologie de l'épilepsie en milieu
tropicale: Enquete cas témoin au Kenya. Paper presented at the
Journées
Neurologiques de Langue Française, Lille,
France.
17. Waruingi, M., & Waruingi, W. (1999). NGOs and epilepsy in
developing countries: the Kenyan experience. Epilepsy Bulletin, 1(1),
1-15.
18. Waruingi, M., & Waruingi, W. (1998). Do antiepilepsy drugs
worsen seizure activity? Kenyan Medical Bulletin, 10, 98-102.
19. Waruingi, M. (1998). The role of microbial infections and
parasitic infestations in the aetiology of epilepsy in Kenya.
Kenya
Medical Bulletin, 1(11), 17-25.
20. Farid, W., Debrock, C., Waruingi, M., & Preux, P. M. (1998).
Scorpion sting in Egypt.
African Journal of Neurological Sciences, 17, 11-14.
21. Preux, P. M., Waruingi, M., Druet-Cabanac, M., Diop, G.,
Kabore, J., Kouassi, B., Mouanga, Y., Grunitziky, E. K., Denis,
F., & Dumas, M. (1998). Retroviruses and Neurological disorders
in 1872 African Patients [Electronic version]. African Journal of
Neurological Sciences, 17(2),
22. Preux, P. M., Waruingi, M., Vernant, J. C., Denis, F.,
& Dumas, M. (1998). HTLV-1 associated facial nerve palsy in
Africans and people of African descent. Annals of Neurology,
43(5), 684-685.
23. Waruingi, M. (1997, November 6-7). Epilepsy in Africa.
Paper presented at the Congress of Epilepsy in Sub-Saharan Africa,
Limoges, France.
24. Waruingi, M., Ndung'u, B. M., & Wambui, M. (1994).
The impact of social-cultural environment on the management of
epilepsy in Kenya.
Paper presented at the Second Annual Congress
on Tropical Neurology, Limoges,
France.
25. Waruingi, M., & Ndung'u, B. M. (1991). Epilepsy:
The forgotten disease. The Student Doctor, 1(1), 7 -12.
(Note. *Switch of first and second names. Macharia Waruingi
versus Waruingi Macharia.)
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