{"id":343,"date":"2019-10-02T02:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7.io\/yoga\/?post_type=dt_team&#038;p=343"},"modified":"2022-07-01T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:50:06","slug":"dr-allen-chiura","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/dt_team\/dr-allen-chiura\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Allen Chiura"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; el_class=&#8221;reverse-row&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1571475726201{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr Allen Chiura is a Zimbabwean born Urological Surgeon who lived and practiced in the United States for 30 years.\u00a0He did is undergraduate and graduate work at The American University in Washington DC before attending The Medical College of Pennsylvania for medical school. This was followed by specialty training in Urology, beginning at Howard University Hospital and completed at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where he was Chief Resident finishing in 1998. He then went in private practice in Delaware, Ohio and finally Oregon where he was a Clinical Assistant Professor at Oregon Health Sciences University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He returned to Zimbabwe in 2012 to open his Urology practice and to facilitate the training of young urologists at\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parirenyatwa\u00a0Government\u00a0Hospital in\u00a0Harare,\u00a0Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr Chiura is the Past President of\u00a0Alliance\u00a0Fran\u00e7oise\u00a0Board,\u00a0past\u00a0Board Member of Culture Fund of Zimbabwe,\u00a0current\u00a0Board Member of\u00a0the\u00a0National\u00a0Sports and Recreation Commission\u00a0of Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is also a board member of Pulse Pharmaceuticals\u00a0Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is a member of the Medical and Dental Council\u2019s Education Liaison Committee and is currently the treasurer of the Association of Urological Surgeons of Zimbabwe. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Barwick School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Chiura was an avid sportsman in his youth. He was the first black player to be selected for Mashonaland seniors. He unfortunately left for university in the United States before he could join his fellow Chaminuka rugby star Richard Tsimba on the Zimbabwe team. As a result, he is passionate about youth development through sport as it has served him so well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Together with wife Dr. Nozipo Maraire, they are Co-Presidents\u00a0of the Discovereum,\u00a0the first and only interactive Children\u2019s Museum, in Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Allen Chiura is a Zimbabwean born Urological Surgeon who lived and practiced in the United States for 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","dt_team_category":[41],"class_list":["post-343","dt_team","type-dt_team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dt_team_category-board-members","dt_team_category-41","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_team\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dt_team"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dt_team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citgis.com\/srczim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dt_team_category?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}