Fredirick L. Mashili (MD, PhD), a senior lecturer in medicine and currently a celebrated exercise physiologist at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), is an alumnus of the University of Dar es Salaam – of the graduating class of 2003. Having done and passed his ordinary and advanced secondary school science subjects--notably biology, chemistry and physics by 1997--he was, in September 1998, admitted to the University of Dar es Salaam at what was then Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS)