About the Surgery DepartmentMakerere University, Department of Surgery has numerous educational and research activities. The surgery department encompasses various surgical specialties like general surgery, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology, and more. It provides surgical care and teaching, investigating and treating pathological conditions related to disease or injury. The department participates in teaching of Undergraduate and postgraduate students with a collective surgical staff of 60 faculty/surgeons who participate in patient care, research and academia. The department runs many clinics, among the clinics is the Breast Clinic. The Breast Clinic is managed by staff from Makerere Department of Surgery and Mulago hospital collaboratively. It runs weekly and has a weekly turnover of 50-80 patients five of whom are newly diagnosed with cancer of the breast. At the breast clinic in Mulago Hospital, the patients undergo routine clinical evaluation and are investigated by mammography and fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the triple assessment. Contact Details E-mail Address: |
Department Head
The Department is chaired by Moses Fred Galukande, a Professor of Surgery. The Chair oversees the surgical residents training program with 60 trainees and over 200 undergraduates each academic year for the past 7 years. He Chairs multiple doctoral Committees and has supervised 8 PhD projects in Breast Cancer, Trauma, Stem Cell therapy, peri-operative surgical practices, and Bioethics. He supervises numerous research projects; 61 graduates and 70 Undergraduate students. In this, he has supervised and mentored 14 undergraduate research projects with the code name Community Based Education, Research and Services (COBERS) and each comprised of 5-10 students. He has published 161 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 5218 citations and h-index 37 and i10 index 91, a book chapter on heat shock protein and breast cancer, three master degree theses and two clinical work manuals. Co-authored treatment guides for Breast, prostate, stomach and esophageal cancers in Uganda. Also co-authored Uganda National Breast Health Guidelines. The Chair has had a privilege to participate in editorial reviews as an editorial reviewer and editorial board member for 21 scientific journals. He participates in general public education via news print media, written over 250 articles, appearing as a weekly. column. Prof Galukande, led a 5-country research grant mapping breast cancer survival in Africa, in collaboration with IARC. Over the past decade, he has provided oversight for SMC HIV Prevention programs that circumcised 60,000 men and boys, led a clinical Trial on a use of a circumcision device, and for several years 5 years took on the role of co - chair for the WHO TAG for circumcision in 15 sub Saharan Africa countries. |
