MBChB, MMED(Psych), PhD(Psych)
School: Medicine
Department: Psychiatry
Dr Emmanuel Kiiza Mwesiga is a psychiatrist and lecturer in the department of Psychiatry at Makerere University. He received his bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from Mbarara University of Science and Technology before completing specialist training in Psychiatry from Makerere University. He also obtained a doctoral degree in Psychiatry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He received advanced fellowships from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Fogarty Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco and MQ for mental health, London. For more than a decade, he has served as a faculty in the department of Psychiatry at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
Emmanuel has been deeply involved in teaching, research, and community engagement. He is the head of undergraduate training in the department and the course convener for the course in organic psychiatry. He teaches various other courses in the department and supervises graduate students in their research dissertations. He has consistently delivered impactful research and scholarship, with numerous peer-reviewed publications, successful acquisition of research grants, and active involvement in coordinating various courses and mentoring students.
He has a passion for clinical research with particular interest in both precision psychiatry and early intervention psychiatry i.e. ensuring patients with mental illness receive precise treatments early in the course of the illness. His current research interests involve using epidemiological, clinical, qualitative and neuroscience descriptions in Ugandan first-episode psychosis and catatonia patients.
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