Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo is a Ugandan physician, academician, medical researcher, and medical administrator.
12 Facts About Nelson Sewankambo
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Nelson Sewankambo is a professor of medicine and former principal of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences, a semi-autonomous constituent college of Makerere University.
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Nelson Sewankambo was born at Mulago Hospital, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city, in 1951.
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Nelson Sewankambo went on to obtain the Master of Medicine degree, specializing in Internal Medicine, from Makerere in the early 1980s.
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Nelson Sewankambo later obtained a Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology, from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Nelson Sewankambo is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
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Nelson Sewankambo was later awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by McMaster University.
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Nelson Sewankambo has been at the forefront of research about the disease, specializing in HIV clinical drug trials.
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Nelson Sewankambo has extensively published the finding of his research in medical journals and other peer publications.
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Nelson Sewankambo served in that position until 2007 when he was promoted to the position of Principal, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, a position he still occupies.
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Nelson Sewankambo has been engaged in a number of international boards, one of them is the Board of the Norwegian Global Health and Vaccination Research for 2011 to 2014.
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Nelson Sewankambo is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences.