Biography

Dr. John Sekabira is a Senior Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Mulago National Referral and Makerere University Teaching Hospital. He completed General Surgical Residency from Makerere University and Specialist Paediatric Surgery training from University of Kwazulu Natal-South Africa. He was the first recipient of the High Green Wood travelling fellowship to Alder Hey Hospital Liverpool and Great Machester Children Hospital in UK for three (3) months.

Dr. Sekabira has given key note speeches at BAPs meeting Edinburg UK and is recipient of a Honorary life time Fellowship of the American Academy of Paediatrics in San Francisco USA (2016) after giving the Gans Stephen lecture at the meeting.

He started the Paediatric Surgery training program which in collaboration with colleagues from UK and North America trained and graduated five (5) Paediatric Surgeons in seven (7) years under COSECSA; four (4) fellows are currently undergoing training.

Dr. John Sekabira partnered with Archie foundation Scotland UK to create the first Paediatric Surgery theatre in Uganda. This went on to evolve Kids’OR that has constructed over 60 operating theatres for Children in Africa and South America.

Dr. Sekabira is board member of GICS, and founding fellow of COSECSA. His clinical and research interests are in Neonatal Surgery and Paediatric Oncology.