From Researching on Male Erectile Dysfunction to a CS, 10 Things that Make Prof. Magoha Stand Out

Former Univeristy of Nairobi Vice Chancellor Prof. George Magoha is certainly headed to be Kenya’s next Education Cabinet Secretary.

Magoha was on Thursday subjected to vetting by Parliament and it is the manner in which he answered the questions posed to him that made Kenyans fancy having him in the Education docket.

There is no doubt that Magoha is a brilliant fellow with a great record in Public Service.

But what makes this renowned professor, who is also a consultant urologist stand Out:

1. He is married to Dr Odudu Barbara, a gynaecologist and together they have one child, Dr Michael Magoha, a surgeon.
2. His research on male erectile dysfunction was used during the invention of Viagra and Cialis, both drugs used to treat erection dysfunction.
3. He has published 59 research papers, mostly on sexual dysfunction, in reputed international and national journals.
4. His career in urology was informed by the struggles he witnessed while growing up of men unable to pass urine.
5. He likes jogging and playing basketball at his compound with his son and plays a bit of golf at Muthaiga Country Club.
6. He enjoys planting trees at his rural farm.
7. He is the patron of Old Starehian medics, a group of former students of Starehe Boys Centre who provide free and regular medical and specialist care to current students at no cost.
8. He has supervised 38 theses of doctors in their postgraduate master’s of medicine in surgery.
9. His professorial inaugural lecture was in October 2003.
10. He started lecturing in surgery at the University of Nairobi in 1988, and he is still a professor of surgery there.