Prof. Francis Ssali, MBChB, MSc, DTM&H, MMed, FCP(ECSA)

Prof. Francis Ssali is the Deputy Executive Director; Research and Clinical Services of Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC). He trained in Medicine at Makerere University and in Clinical Hematology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario Canada and he is a Fellow of the East Central and Southern Africa Association of Physicians and a member of the American Society of Hematology.

He is a physician involved in HIV care and research with over 20years of experience and involved in elective and emergency therapeutic Apheresis. Francis is the Chairman of the Uganda HIV/ART technical Committee and is a member of the Uganda National HIV Drug Resistance Committee.
He is a Co-PI of the CAPRI adoptive cell research at JCRC and is leading its establishment at the Centre. Francis teaches HIV Medicine and Hematology in the Internal Medicine Residence program at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences and in the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship program at the Uganda Cancer Institute.