Dr. Chimota Phiri is a  qualified internal medicine specialist and also a qualified Nephrologist working at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) where he is heading the Internal Medicine Department and runs the kidney and dialysis services. He previously he worked as District Health Officer at Nkhatabay District Hospital. He did his undergraduate medical training at KuHES and completed his postgraduate training at the University of Capetown in South Africa.  He is a fellow of the International Society of Nephrologists (ISN), Fellow of the College of Physicians of South Africa, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). Fellow of the East,  Central and Southern  Africa College of Physicians (ECSA). He is the current Chairperson of the National Medicines Committee.

He is alo the current Chairperson of the Medicines Safety and Quality Monitoring Committee of the PMRA Board.