Matilda Kerry

Matilda Kerry

Matilda Kerry, MD is a Nigerian doctor. [1]

Kerry attended Federal Girls College, Benin,and later the University of Lagos where she studied Medicine and Surgery. In 2000, she was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, making her Nigeria's Miss World 2000 representative. As MBGN, her project was Leprosy, and she used her celebrity status to promote awareness of the disease. [2] Kerry also worked as a model. [3]

After relinquishing her title, Kerry returned to university, graduating in 2007, and now practises medicine. Her duties have included working with the National Cervical Cancer Prevention Centre and establishing the Nigeria Cervical Health Campaign; she is now president of the George Kerry Life foundation, a non-governmental organization that promotes the Cervical Health Campaign[4].

In 2009, Kerry was an adviser on Super Runway, a fashion and modelling talent show. [5]

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