About

Dr. Nkumbe is an ophthalmologist, who is specialised in cataract surgery, the medical and surgical management of diseases of the retina and vitreous and glaucoma.

He attended Medical School at the Georg August University in Goettingen, Germany, and was an exchange student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He subsequently completed ophthalmology residency at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a fellowship in surgical retina at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India as a Helmerich Scholar. He is a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) and holds an MSc in Community Eye Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Following a two-year stint with the World Health Organization’s TDR. in Geneva, he worked with CBM in Tanzania and Madagascar for seven years, helping with the implementation of VISION 2020 programs. During his professional career, Dr Nkumbe has worked in several African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Nigeria, Gabon and Cameroon. He has equally visited projects in Djibouti, Mali, Ghana and Guinea Bissau as a technical advisor or monitor.

Dr. Nkumbe has served on several advisory boards, including technical advisor for the Lions Clubs Sight First Program in charge of francophone Africa and West Africa. He was also a visiting lecturer on the Community Eye Health Course at Groote Schur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and visiting Professor at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute in 2013. He is the Founding president of CAMFOMEDICS, the 30-year-old Germano-Cameroonian Forum for the Medical Sciences, and the Founding General Secretary of the African Ophthalmology Forum, now African Ophthalmology Council. He has received several international awards in recognition of his work in fighting visual impairment and improving health care in Africa.
To name a few, Dr. Nkumbe was honoured with the Knight of the Madagascar Order of Merit by the President of Madagascar in 2012. Ten years later, in 2022, he was honoured with the Knight of the Cameroon order of Valour by the President of the Republic of Cameroon. He was appointed Visiting Professor at The He University, Shenyang, China.

He is Director of Retina and Vitreous Surgery since 2016 and Chief Executive Officer of the Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute (MICEI), in Yaounde, since 2020. Under his leadership, MICEI has grown to become Central Africa’s Leading Center of Excellence for Eye Care, winning close to 20 awards and receiving trainees from 13 African countries and patients referred for subspecialty care from 10 African countries.