[1] In 2002, he left Uganda for Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, to pursue a two-year Fellowship in hematology and oncology at Case Western Reserve University.
Later, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Stockholm County in Sweden.
That collaboration led to Fred Hutch offering two annual slots to MMed graduates from Uganda, to pursue two-year medical oncology fellowships in Seattle.
[1] Dr Victoria Walusansa, the first graduate of that program in now the Deputy Medical Director at Uganda Cancer Institute.
He is a member of the Non-Communicable Disease Technical working group of the Uganda Ministry of Health and chairs the adverse events and surveillance committee of the HPV vaccine program in the country.