Damalie Nakanjako
Damalie Nakanjako, is a Ugandan specialist physician, internist, immunologist, infectious diseases consultant, academic and researcher, who serves as the Principal and Professor of Medicine at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. Immediately prior to her present position, she served as Dean of Makerere University School of Medicine, from 2019 until 17 February 2021. Background and education. She was born in the Buganda Region of Uganda in the 1970s. After attending local schools, she was admitted to Makerere University, where she studied human medicine. She graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree in 1999 . She followed that with a Master of Medicine (MMed) degree in Internal Medicine, also from Makerere University. Her third degree was a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical Science, obtained from the University of Antwerp, in Belgium, in 2010. According to her online curriculum vitae, she spent the years between 2011 and 2013 at the Infectious Diseases Institute, working as a postdoctoral fellow and at Uganda Virus Research Institute, working as a research scholar. Career. Nakanjako interned at Mulago Hospital in Internal Medicine and Obstetrics and Genecology, from 1998 until 1999. She spent another year at the same hospital as  a medical officer. She then spent two years as a specialist medical officer at the CDC field station in Tororo, Uganda. In 2002, she returned to Mulago to pursue her master's degree. After her MMed studies she focused on clinical research in HIV/AIDS and she started lecturing in internal medicine at Makerere in 2007. Following her PhD studies, the Welcome Trust awarded her a scholarship to undertake a postdoctoral fellowship at Makerere, based at the Infectious Diseases Institute of the university. Makerere University appointed Nakanjako as Associate Professor of Medicine in 2013, serving in that capacity for five  years. In 2018 she made full Professor. Other considerations. Professor Nakanjako has authored or co-written over 100 peer-reviewed articles, in the areas of her medical expertise in different medical journals.