Ruben J. Williams is committed to positively impact the training of surgeons in East Africa, by facilitating a global exchange of ideas, advances and skills in the medical field.  

Perpetuating a Vision

2011: Andrew Warshaw, MD will be the 2011 RJW Distinguished Lecturer. He is the Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and the W. Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

2010: Russell G. Robertson, MD - Chairman, Council on Graduate Medicine Education, Advisor to Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services with regard to physician Supply and distribution. Chair of Family and Community Medicine Council of Graduate Medical Education , Northwestern University, Feinberg School Of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

2010: Alessandro Olivi, M.D., Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine

2009: Dr Michael  Mulholland MD, PhD, the Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan delivered  Grand Rounds in Nairobi at The Aga Khan Teaching Hospital on the 12th of November 2009.

2008: Dr George Jallo, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital


2007: Dr Murray Brennan MD, the immediate former Chair of General Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering, NY.
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2006: Dr Julie Freischlag MD, The William Stewart Halsted Professor and Chair of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.