Dr. Laura Ruhl

AMPATH Pediatric Team Leader and Assistant Visiting Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Dr. Ruhl had her first experience in Eldoret in 2002 as a first year Indiana University medical student through the Slemenda Scholarship program. She returned to Eldoret as a fourth year medical student and then completed her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at IU before coming back to AMPATH as the pediatric team leader for a two year term. Dr. Ruhl had previously lived in Uganda for a year working in public health and is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. She rounds in the hospital, teaches at academic conferences every morning, works with the primary healthcare team to deliver pediatric care and helps supervise the visiting medical students and residents. She is adjusting well to Kenyan life and has learned that you have to stand back and find ways to build the system because you can't help every individual. She has a garden where she grows many of the vegetables she can't find easily in Eldoret, and she has created her second family with the community of friends she has made there.