ECMO Course — Nairobi
Establishing Kenya's first ECMO service, in partnership with Aga Khan University
14–16 September 2026 · Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi
EINZ is partnering with Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUHN) to help establish Kenya's first ECMO service.
Over three days at the University's Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), EINZ faculty deliver an intensive, hands-on ECMO course — foundational teaching, high-fidelity simulation and ultrasound-guided cannulation training — paired with the program governance and quality-assurance structures a safe, sustainable service depends on. A train-the-trainer handover leaves the local team equipped to run a recurring in-house program, so the capability is Kenyan-led from the outset.
Foundations, simulation and ultrasound-guided cannulation for the core ECMO team.
Complications surveillance, ELSO Registry participation and structured morbidity & mortality review.
Train-the-trainer handover of simulators and 3D-printed models to CIME.
Course faculty combine EINZ's international team — Stefan Wiebe, Julia Coull, Adrian Böhm, with Suraj Yalamuri and Brooke Riley joining remotely — and perfusion and nursing specialists, working alongside clinicians from Aga Khan University Hospital and the CIME team.
Three days at CIME
Day 1 is open to the wider AKUHN clinical community in a lecture format. Days 2–3 are limited to the core ECMO team — cannulating clinicians, ECMO nurses and perfusion.
Foundations
Circuit Mastery and Simulation
Cannulation, Crisis Management and Handover
A partnership with Aga Khan University
This course is the first step of a longer collaboration: a Kenyan-led ECMO service, supported by EINZ with education, governance and the tools to keep training the next cohort locally. For enquiries about EINZ's capacity-building work, get in touch.