Dr. Mondo Charles Kiiza

Dr. Mondo Charles Kiiza is a Professor of medicine and contract consultant cardiologist at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital, Kampala. Before then, he was a Consultant cardiologist at the Uganda Heart Institute and Mulago Hospital – the teaching hospital for Makerere University Medical School. Dr. Mondo graduated from Makerere University for his undergraduate studies (MBChB), and from Tianjin Medical University, China, for his masters (M.Med. Cardiology) and doctoral (Ph.D. cardiology) studies. He is a fellow of the European Society of cardiologists (FESC), a fellow of the American College of Cardiologists (FACC).

He is currently the Dean, School of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences at King Ceasor University, Kampala – Uganda; an honorary professor of Medicine at Gulu University and Mbarara University of Science & Technology Medical School, Uganda. Dr. Mondo has attracted substantial funding for medical research and other local initiatives in the country over the past 16 years. This includes, the construction and establishment of the cardiac catheterization laboratory block at the Uganda Heart Institute, the establishment of the Uganda NCD Alliance and Uganda Initiative for integrated management of NCDs. He founded the Uganda Heart Association in 2009, and as the PASCAR general secretary for Eastern Africa, hosted the famous Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) Congress in Kampala, in 2011, which attracted more than 400 guests. In 2016, he worked with Prof. Paul D’Arbela, the then dean of mother Kevin Postgraduate medical school at Uganda Martyr’s University, to establish the cardiology service at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya. In 2019, he partnered with Prof. Michael Kawoya, the director of ECUREI at Mengo Hospital to establish the cardiology service and training program in echocardiography at Mengo Hospital, Kampala – Uganda. He has world-wide collaboration networks that extend into several universities and teaching hospitals across the globe, and has extensive pre- and postgraduate teaching and research experience. He has cultivated more than 25 Masters Students, 3 PhDs and over 110 certificate trainees in various scarce-skills courses in cardiology over the past 20 years. He brings this expertise to this novel consortium.