Hakim Sendagire is a

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and medical administrator. Currently he is the Dean at

Habib Medical School Habib Medical School (HMS) is the school of medicine of the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU), one of Uganda's private universities. The school is the newest medical school in the country, having been part of IUIU since 2014. The school provide ...

, College of Health Sciences of the

Islamic University in Uganda The Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) is a multi-campus university offering courses at certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The main campus of the university is in Mbale, Uganda, about north-east of Kampala, Uganda's ca ...

, a private university, one of the 41 universities in the country, as at February 2015.

Background and education

He was born at

Kasangati Kasangati is a town in Nangabo sub-county, Wakiso District in the Central Region of Uganda. It also serves as the headquarters for Kyadondo County. The town is multi-lingual and is a "melting pot" of diverse cultures. Locations The town is l ...

Wakiso District Wakiso District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda that partly encircles Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The town of Wakiso is the site of the district headquarters. Kira, the country's second largest city and suburb of Kampala, is i ...

, Central Uganda, on 10 June 1972. He attended ''Kololo High School'' for is O-Level studies. He transferred to

Kibuli Secondary School Kibuli Secondary School (KSS) is a mixed boarding junior (S1-S4) and senior (S5-S6) school in Uganda. Location KSS is located on Kibuli Hill, in Makindye Division, in the south-central part of the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest ...

for his A-Level education. In 1991, he was admitted to

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. He studied human medicine, graduating, in 1996, with the degree of

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United K ...

(MBChB). His degree of Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences (MSc), was obtained in 1999, from the

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, in the United Kingdom. In 2007, at the age of 35, he was awarded the degree of

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(PhD), in

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, by Makerere University in collaboration with

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in Sweden.

Career

He worked briefly as a medical officer in

Mulago Hospital Mulago National Specialised Hospital, also known as Mulago National Referral Hospital, is a component of Mulago Hospital Complex, the teaching facility of Makerere University College of Health Sciences. It is the largest public hospital in Ug ...

November 1995 until August 1997. After his master's degree in the United Kingdom, he worked as the Deputy Director of Health Services at Kasangati Health Center IV, in

, from 1999 until 2006. During the same timeframe, he served as a lecturer in the Department of

. From May 2000 until May 2001, he attended a postgraduate fellowship at the

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

. In 2007 he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of

Microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

Makerere University College of Health Sciences Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) is a constituent college of Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university. The schools of the college offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the biomedical sciences, health science ...

, serving in that position until 2014, when he was appointed Dean of

Other responsibilities

Dr. Sendagire is the Technical Advisor for Laboratory Services at the

Uganda Ministry of Health The Ministry of Health is a cabinet-level government ministry of Uganda. It is responsible for planning, delivering, and maintaining an efficient and effective healthcare delivery system, including preventive, curative, and rehabilitative service ...

, based at the ''Uganda National Health Laboratory Services'', located on Buganda Road, in central

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...

. He is also the Director of ''International Academic and Medical Complex (IAMeC)'', (Seeta Academic Complex), the company which runs ''Seeta Kasangati Secondary School'', a private middle and high school (grades 8 to 13), located near

. He has a passion for teaching science at all levels and preparing young people into future scientists.

Personal details

Professor Sendagire is married and together with his wife, they are the parents of five children.

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