Raymond Odokonyero

He is a medical doctor who earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from Makerere University in 2007. Thereafter, he worked as a Medical Officer at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala before enrolling in a Master of Medicine in Psychiatry at Makerere University in 2008, which he completed in 2011. Following the completion of his Psychiatry training, he returned to Mulago Hospital to work as a psychiatrist for a year. Toward the close of 2012, he joined the Makerere University faculty as a lecturer, a position he has held to date. His responsibilities in this role include teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Department of Psychiatry, providing clinical care to patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital, and conducting research. He has been the coordinator of undergraduate training in the Department of Psychiatry since 2012. He has also been the course coordinator for the addiction psychiatry and organic psychiatry courses for postgraduate students since 2013. In 2013, he joined a non-governmental organization known as the Peter C. Alderman Foundation (PCAF), an organization addressing the mental health problems of authors affected by conflict and war in Northern and Eastern Uganda. The organization was, in part, the brainchild of the Department of Psychiatry. It was while he was working with this organization as a supervising psychiatrist that he developed an interest in the mental health of post-conflict populations, laying the foundation for his PhD topic of interest. In the same year, 2013, he attended randomized clinical trials training at the University of Cape Town in preparation for his future involvement with post-conflict populations.