Professional profile

Career level:
Entry level

Status as medical specialist:
Medical officer in the ICU Mengo Hospital

Medical specialty, field of interest:
Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry

Research profile:
Medical doctor with experience in clinical research, research data management, data quality assurance, and public health research. Contributed to research on hemodynamic changes from preconception to very early pregnancy among women planning to conceive in Southwestern Uganda through data entry, completeness checks, and data integrity management, supporting research published in the Journal of Hypertension in 2025. Also contributed to the Uganda National Population and Housing census by UBOS from 10th -26th May 2024 as Supervisor of Enumerators in Busabala LC1. Additional experience includes community-based disease surveillance, health education, and field data collection. Co-authored the "Timing of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement in Disseminated Tuberculosis with Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by Hydrocephalus: A Case Report Highlighting the Need for Clinical Guidelines".My research interests include sepsis, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), infection prevention and control (IPC), disease surveillance, critical care, and health systems strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa

Current (last) position held

Current employer company:
Mengo Hospital
Kampala, Uganda
https://mengohospital.org

Job title:
Medical Officer

Duration:
11 November 2025

Current employer name of lead clinician:
Dr. Muyanja David

Work experience

• Research Data Manager, January 2023- March 2025, Mbarara University of Science and Technology; Haemodynamic changes from prepregnancy to very early pregnancy among women planning to conceive in Southwestern Uganda by Dr. Henry Mark Lugobe. Responsible for data entry and to check for the completeness of the entered data.
• Data Collection and Ebola awareness education to masses in markets and streets of Mbarara, Seed Global Health Ebola Response Team, 30th Oct 2023- 30th Dec 2023.
• Supervisor of Enumerators in Busabala LC1 during the Uganda National Population and Housing census, UBOS, 10th -26th May 2024. Responsible for monitoring and automated quality controlling of door-to-door enumeration of persons in Busabala village as well as reporting the census data to the central servers.
• Intern Medical Officer, August 2024-July 2025, Mengo Hospital. Responsible for medical and surgical management of out-patients and in-patients in the departments of Surgery, Obstetrics and gynecology, Pediatrics and Internal medicine.
• Co-Investigator: September 2025 to date. Monitoring The Availability And Prices Of Insulin, Its Delivery Devices And Glucose Monitoring Devices In Health Facilities In Uganda. (ACCISS STUDY). Responsible for co-writing of the research proposal, applying for research approval and data collection.
• Medical officer, November 2025 up to date, Mengo Hospital. Responsible for management of out-patients and in-patients in the departments of Critical Care, ICU and NICU.
• Co-author, Timing of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement in Disseminated Tuberculosis with Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by Hydrocephalus: A Case Report Highlighting the Need for Clinical Guidelines. (under review by the Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Diseases Journal, Manuscript ID TAD-26-173).