Dr Tamara Phiri is a specialist physician at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and senior clinical lecturer at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi. She is Registrar of the East Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians overseeing operations of the college and specialist physician training in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. She is the immediate past president of the Malawi College of Physicians. She lectures regularly on tropical medicine courses at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Germany. The president of Malawi – Dr Lazarus Chakwera - awarded her a Presidential Award for excellence and outstanding service in the Malawian health sector. Dr tamara serves as a board member of palliative care support trust.

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