Prof. Fred Bukachi

Fred Bukachi is Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Professor in Medical Physiology,  Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi (UoN). He is also the Centre Director of the ARUA Centre of Excellence for Non-Communicable Diseases  (ACENCD) and Academic Co-Lead of Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) in NCDs and Multimorbidity. He trained in Internal Medicine at the UoN  (1995) and later in Cardiology at the Imperial College, London (1999), and Umea University in Sweden.  He holds a PhD in Cardiology (2004). Since 2015 he has participated and chaired Guideline writing Committees in Kenya and the region – developing practice guidelines  for the treatment of Hypertension, Heart Failure and Diabetes. Professor Bukachi has published extensively including a recent (2025) book Chapter: AI for Telemedicine in Africa and Beyond (Book Title: Telemedicine – Models of Care).

He also serves as a board member and advisor to many regional and international organizations working in the area of NCDs in Africa.  He is the immediate former Chair of Medical Physiology at the University of Nairobi and a pioneer of Digital Health in the East-African Region.  He is a Fellow of (1) the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), (2) the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and a Founding Fellow of East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians (ECSACOP).

Current Editorial appointments: (1) Regional Editor of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa (official Journal of Pan African Society of Cardiology).  (2) Reviewer for major biomedical Journals in Cardiovascular medicine and top grant making organizations.

Current Research areas:  Hypertension, Heart failure and Cardiometabolic disease and models of care in NCDs.

Current grants: (1) Co-Principal Investigator: NIH-R1 Joint Grant with Stellenbosch University, South Africa:  HIV-associated NCD Research at Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions – Project title -Altered mitochondrial function and HIV-associated Cardiometabolic disease in populations from South Africa and Kenya (MITOSAKen).

(2)  Principal Investigator: Caring for NCD Caregivers:  Developing a National Caregivers Policy in Kenya. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.