Harriet Mayanja-Kizza

Biography

w:Harriet Mayanja-Kizza is a Ugandan physician, researcher, and academic administrator. She is the former Dean of Makerere University School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in East Africa.

Quotes

• Our main need was for people to be trained in subspecialties
• Around that time we had started reorganizing our wards from general admission wards to subspecialty wards. Before that we would admit patients on different wards every day. That meant that any one doctor would treat everybody. There were no specialists. We realized it was better for a patient with kidney disease to be managed by a doctor who was expert in kidney disease.
• Now we have people who come back and work in a given specialty and continue training in that area,
  • Harriet Mayanja-Kizza during the celebration of 10 years of Uganda's partnership