Richard Iwa Idro, the current Deputy Principal, is a specialized pediatrician, with super specialization as a neurologist. His research interests include HIV/AIDS in adolescents, the interactions between HIV and malaria, and the prognostic features of cerebral malaria, among other topics. Recently, his work has expanded into studies of brain injury in sickle cell anemia, viral encephalitis and childhood epilepsy.
He also concurrently serves as an Honorary Consultant Pediatrician and Pediatric Neurologist at Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH), in Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. MNRH is the teaching hospital of Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
He is a leading authority on Nodding disease, an ill-understood pediatric mental condition, characterized by seizures, mental retardation and stunted growth. The cause remains unknown and there was no known cure, as of 2019.
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