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Mr. Fred Ochieng' is a third year medical student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennesee. He was raised by schoolteachers in the small rural village of Lwala in western Kenya. After completing his studies at Alliance High School in Nairobi, Kenya, he attended college in the United States, at Dartmouth College.

While they were at medical school, Mr. Ochien' and his older brother Dr. Milton Ochieng, along with their father, they conceived of n idea to improve health care in their ailing village of Lwala by building a clinic. Both parents died of AIDS while the brothes were still in school.

Determined to realize their father's dream, Mr. Ochieng' and his brother juggled their medical studies while networking and fundraising across America to build the village's first clinic: the Erastus Ochieng' Lwala Community Memorial Health Center. Their work is the subject of a documentary called Sons of Lwala, which premiered in Nashville in March 2008, winning several accolades including the 2008 Nashville Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary. The documentary is being shown across the USA to continue raising funds for the clinic through the Ochieng's non-profit organization: the Lwala Community Alliance.

Along with his brother, Mr. Ochieng' received a Senate Joint Resolution certificate of commendation from the 105th General Assembly of the State of Tennessee in recognition of their extraordinary efforts in humanitarianism, community leadership and the betterment of the global community through the practice of medicine.

Mr. and Dr. Ochieng' have been keynote speakers at the Harvard-Columbia-Johns Hopkins Medical School Sponsored Courses, entitled "Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care," delivered to audiences of over 5000 clinicians in New York, Boston and Baltimore. As keynote speakers at the conference, they are in the company of prominent healthcare physicians, Dr. Patch Adams, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Judah Foulkman and Andrew Weil.