Welcome to the 5th Annual Uganda Conference on Palliative Care. This conference is a partnership between the Uganda Cancer Institute…
Dr. Aggrey S. Semeere, MB,ChB., M.Med (Int.Med), MAS, FCP (ECSA)
Leads the Prevention, Care and Treatment Program
Dr. Semeere is an Internal Medicine Specialist with advanced training in Epidemiology and Implementation Science. He currently leads the Prevention, Care and Treatment Program, and a number of NIH funded research projects at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS).
He has worked on cancer among people living with HIV for 13 years now focusing on epidemiology and enhancing diagnosis.
In the last 10 years, he has led a number of NIH funded research initiatives to enhance cancer diagnosis. These have included the use of DNA amplification, digital image analysis of lesions and pathology to enhance the diagnosis of Kaposi’s sarcoma and cervical cancer.