Ponsiano Ocama
Ponsiano Ocama
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Makerere University College of Health Sci.
Kampala, Uganda
Ponsiano is currently an Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine and an academic hepatologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda, where he supervises the clinical services for GI/hepatology at the teaching hospital, Mulago. He also leads several clinical studies focused on HIV, HBV and HCC and schistosomiasis induced liver diseases. Previously, he completed an academic research hepatology fellowship at UT-Southwestern in Dallas, under direction of William M. Lee, a fellowship as a clinical research scholar on HIV and hepatitis at the Infectious Disease Institute, Kampala, and obtained PhD through Antwerp University under the direction of Dr. Robert Colebunders focused on understanding hepatitis B, C, and HIV in the etiology of liver diseases in Uganda.
Career
| Chair, Dept of Medicine, MAKCHS, Kampala Uganda | 2015-date |
| Associate Professor, MAKCHS | 2013-date |
| Senior lecturer, MAKCHS | 2010-2012 |
| Lecturer | 2003-2012 |
Education
| PhD, University of Antwerp, Institute of TropicalMedicine | 2006-2011 |
| Masters of Medicine, Internal Medicine, MAKCHS | 1998-2001 |
| Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, MAKCHS | 1989-1994 |
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