Lameck Diero is a Professor of Internal  Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. He is a consultant physician with a focus on managing Respiratory diseases and Tuberculosis at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPTH HIV/TB clinics. Currently he chairs the adult medicine and Tuberculosis Research working groups at AMPATH consortium, Moi University. He is the past chairman of the department of medicine and Director Institute of Biomedical informatics.

Prof Diero has training background in Internal Medicine, Medical informatics and health services research at Nairobi and Indiana Universities respectively. He  also received training in TB and respiratory diseases at The University of Kwa Zulu Natal and Sondalo institute in Italy. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2019. He is a member of several professional societies including; Kenya Association of Physicians, Kenya Medical Association, Respiratory Society of Kenya, American Thoracic Society, Pan African Thoracic society and European Respiratory Society.

He has extensive experience in Global Research, training and program management. He has attracted several research and training grants including NIH research grants, the HITRAIN, FIMP grant and Forgarty funded D43. Prof Diero has published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals with more than 50 conference abstracts. His research theme is on TB, Lung Health and HIV treatment outcomes and interactions with opportunistic infections. Additionally he is engaged in health informatics based researches involving use of large databases in research  and programs that implement the use of health information technology tools to improve health care delivery. He has developed centers of excellence in management of drug resistant tuberculosis and TB/HIV care models.

He is an external examiner in internal medicine and peer reviewer in many local and international Universities and other international trainings programs including ECSACOP.

He is the Technical Advisor for Tuberculosis at AMPATH clinics and provides technical support to the Ministry of health to implement MDRTB care and a member of the national MDRTB working group. He is a WHO Consultant in TB/HIV activities and previously supported many countries in implementing TB/HIV activities and MDRTB programs. He has a passion in training, mentorship, Global Health Research and Health Programs Development.