- endagire@impactrhd.or.ug
- +2567xx-xxx-xxx
- Makerere University, College of Health Sciences
Dr. Ndagire holds a Master of Medicine in Paediatrics and Child Health and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Makerere University. Additionally, she has undertaken a research fellowship with the American Heart Association at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington and a peadiatric cardiology fellowship at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) where she currently works. As a pediatric cardiologist, she diagnoses and treats children and adolescents with heart disease, mentors and teaches cardiology fellows, postgraduate and undergraduate students and conducts research. Her research interests include Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF), the precursor of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) and clinical research regarding RHD.
Her research interests include non-communicable diseases and healthcare implementation research at clinical and public health level. On the Impact Program, Dr. Nakiganda will conduct a study titled, ‘determining the most appropriate outcome for acute rheumatic fever (ARF) therapeutics clinical trials’
Her research will also focus on the feasibility of conducting these trials in terms of recruitment and retention; assess factors that affect adherence to protocol in these trails and validate novel recruitment methods developed and used in Uganda across four diverse continental locations. This work will guide the design of future ARF therapeutics trials to improve outcomes of children with ARF and could set the standard for Global ARF surveillance. In her free time, Dr Ndagire enjoys watching movies and recreational reading.