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Dr. Milton Ochieng' is a first year resident at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Ochieng' grew up in the small rural village of Lwala in western Kenya. The second of four boys and two girls born to schoolteacher parents, Dr. Ochieng' attended Alliance High School in Nairobi, Kenya, and traveled to the United States to Dartmouth College for his undergraduate degree.

To pay his airfare to the US, his village sold their chickens, goats and cows, with only one request: "Do not forget us." Dr. Ochieng' was joined at Dartmouth by his younger brother, Frederick Ochieng'. While at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, with the help of their father, the brothers conceived of an idea to build a health clinic in their ailing village of Lwala. The brothers' parents died of AIDS while they were in school in the US.

Determined to realize their father's dream, Dr. Ochieng' and his brother Fred juggled their medical studies while networking and fundraising across America to build Lwala's first clinic, the Erastus Ochieng' Lwala Community Memorial Health Center. Their work is the subject of a documentary, 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 US to continue raising funds for the clinic through the brothers' non-profit organization, the Lwala Community Alliance.

Upon graduation from Vanderbilt, Dr. Ochieng' received the David R. Freely Memorial Award and the Leonard Tow 2008 Humanism in Medicine Award in recognition of the inspiration he provides to others through his integrity, courage and compassion in the delivery of healthcare. In addition, Dr. Ochieng', along with his brother, 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.

Together, the Ochieng' brothers have served as 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. Previous keynote speakers at the Harvard-Columbia-Johns Hopkins Medical School Sponsored conferences have included the likes of Dr. Patch Adams, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Judah Foulkman and Andrew Weil.