ASOU End of Year Dinner 2022
1st Edition of the Uganda Surgical Landscape Exhibition
30th - 31st March, 2023 at Protea by Marriott Hotel - Entebbe
The Association of Surgeons of Uganda conducts scientific conferences where a theme is selected and members prepare and present scientific publications.
The Association also organizes skills transfer workshops and registrar’s symposiums to teach surgical residents.
The most recent surgical conference was held on Friday 18th March 2022 at Fairway Hotel, Kampala with the theme, “Embracing emergency trends in Surgical Practice”
— Association of Surgeons of Uganda (ASOU) (@ASOU_Official) April 1, 2023
No. | Publication | Presenter |
1. | Using Virtual Reality as an innovative surgical training platform in Uganda. | Dr. Henry Luweesi |
2. | Optimizing surgical training: Live video streaming, recording and relaying surgical procedures to large groups of trainees using Smary glasses and storage of standardized video operative manuals. | Dr. Cathy Kilyewala |
3. | Utilizing technology to enhance surgical practice at an ambulatory surgical center in rural Eastern Uganda. | Dr. Joseph Okello Damoi |
4. | Where there is no rural surgeon: a tale or rural surgical patients in Busoga region.A surgeons experience and a way forward. | Dr. Isaac Mubeezi |
5. | Do I need my other half? Care for conjoined twins in a resource limited setting. | Dr. Kisa Phylis |
6. | Are we feeding them? Preliminary results from a baseline study on nutritional trends among newborns that are unable to use their bowel due to a structural anomaly. | Dr. Kisa Phyllis |
7. | Health facilities’ readiness for safe surgical care provision in Uganda and the Eastern Democratic republic of Congo during Ebola and Covid-19 era | Prof. Robinson Ssebuufu |
8. | Innovations in provision of surgical care during the Covid-19 pandemic in resource limited setting | Dr. Kabweru Wilberforce |
9. | Surgery of Covid-19 patients in Africa: A scoping review | Dr. Frank Katembo Sikakulya |
10. | Advancing HPB Surgery in Uganda | Dr. Okello Michael |
11. | Pearls of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy | Dr. Kurigamba Gideon |
12. | Stoma care devices | Dr. Basimbe Francis |
13. | Status of Endoscopy in Uganda | Dr. Kigonya Victor |
14. | How to effectively train and supervise medical interns in surgery | Dr. Fualal Jane |
15. | Specialty career preference among final year medical students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences Uganda. A mixed methods study | Dr. Kuteesa Job |
16. | Heat Shock Protein over expression in Triple Negative Breast Cancer among Ugandan women with Breast cancer. An analytical study | Prof. Moses Galukande |
17. | Cushing’s syndrome: The dilemma of diagnosing and management adrenocortical carcinoma | Dr. Fualal Jane |
18. | Breast reconstructive surgery: level of acceptance, associated patient and disease factors among women with breast cancer post mastectomy in Mulago Hospital | Dr. Nalule Miriam |
19. | Safety and feasibility of autologous adipose derived stromal vascular fraction in the treatment of Keloids | Dr. Mbiine Ronald |
20. | Colonoscopy findings among patients at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya: A 6-year descriptive cross-sectional study. | Dr. Basimbe Francis |
21. | Colorectal cancer in Uganda: a ten year facility based retrospective study. | Dr. Godfrey Wheka |
