Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Lukoye Atwoli
Professor of Psychiatry and the Dean of the Aga Khan University Medical College, East Africa
Dr. Fiona Baine-Savanhu (PhD)
Senior Medical Scientist, Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service &
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Ibrahima Barry, Guinea
HD family Member- Family story
Dr. Abdoulaye Bocoum (MD)
University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako, Mali
Xi Cao
Founder and President of the Chinese Huntington´s Association
Dr. Maouly Fall
Movement Disorders Neurologist,
Assistant Professor Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal
Dr. Karen Flynn
Associate Professor, Samford University & UAB Huntington’s Disease Centre of Excellence
Dr. Leora Fox (PhD)
Assistant Director of Research and Patient Engagement,
Huntington’s Disease Society of America
Dr. Carlos Othon Gulengar
Resident Neurology, University of Conakry, Guinea
Dr. Rob Haselberg (PhD)
Vereniging van Huntington, the Netherlands
Dr. Juzar Hooker (MB, ChB, MMed, DCN)
Consulting Neurologist, tertiary care referral private practice
Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi
Lewis Kaplan
CEO Huntington’s NSW ACT, Australia
Prof. Amanda Krause (BSc, MB BCh, BScHons, PhD)
Professor of Medical genetics, Head of the Division of Human Genetics,
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Muthoni Mate
Founder the Cancer Café, Senior Research Manager at Center for Public Health and Development in Kenya
Prof. Anne Muigai (BEd,MSc and PhD)
Professor of Genetics, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic Affairs & Research
National Defence University-Kenya
Evelyne Waithira Müller
Psychologist at the TelefonSeelsorge in Bielefeld Germany
Founder of Fulfilled Life
Mr. Emmanuel Munene
Partnerships and Engagement Manager, Huntington Disease Africa
Mr. Maina Munene, Kenya
HD family Member- Caregiver
Dr. Mendi Muthinja (PhD)
Founder and Chair Huntington Disease Africa
Em Muthiora
HD family Member
Jaque Mutombo
HD family Member
Dr. Mie Rizig, MBBS, MSc, PhD, MRCP
Senior Clinical research fellow at University College London (UCL), Institute of Neurology,
Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Dilraj Sokhi
Associate Professor of Neurology, Aga Khan University Medical College
Dr. Valerie Suski
Director, HDSA Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Rhoda Wagaki
Counselling Psychologist, Founder and Chair Suruvi – Care for Caregivers
