Peter Amollo Odhiambo

Peter Amollo Odhiambo is a Kenyan consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, described as Kenya's first cardiothoracic surgeon, and a professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the University of Nairobi. He was educated at Calcutta Medical College, Nairobi University, the University of Edinburgh and McGill University, and served as the tenth dean of Nairobi University's faculty, now school, of medicine from 1992 to 1996. He founded and chaired the Kenya Cardiac Society, served as president of the Pan African Society of Cardiology, and founded and edits Medicom, the African Journal of Hospital Medicine. He later chaired the Kenya Tobacco Control Board and received a World Health Organization World No Tobacco Day award in 2008. His writing includes books on tobacco and health and an autobiographical memoir, Making The Cut.