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Pioneers

People who built anaesthesia in Africa

Their work, their achievements and the research they have shared.

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Dr Edwin Rwebugisa Lugazia

Consultant cardiothoracic anaesthesiologist · Tanzania

Dr Lugazia has worked in anaesthesia for more than 25 years. He teaches and leads anaesthesia and critical care training in Dar es Salaam, including at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, Muhimbili National Hospital and the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute. He has worked to grow the anaesthesia and critical care workforce and to improve patient safety in places with few resources.

19publications listed on his Academia.edu profile
To comeConferences attended, to be shared by Dr Lugazia
To comeCases attended, to be shared by Dr Lugazia

Roles

  • Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
  • President, Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania (SATA)
  • Deputy Secretary General, College of Anaesthesiologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (CANECSA)
  • Chairperson, Advisory Board of The Operating Room Issues Group (TORG)
  • Member of committees and working groups of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the World Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia (World SIVA)

Achievements

  • A key figure in developing and carrying out Tanzania’s National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthesia Plan (NSOAP)
  • Led efforts to address the shortage of anaesthesia and critical care staff
  • Worked on safer anaesthesia in low-resource settings, including total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA)
  • Involved in open heart surgery, interventional cardiology and kidney transplant care

Education

  • MD and MMed, University of Dar es Salaam
  • Fellowship in cardiothoracic anaesthesia, India
  • MBA in corporate management, Mzumbe University

Selected publications

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Information comes from public pages: the TORG announcement and his Academia.edu profile.

Prof Kingsley Ufuoma Tobi

Anaesthesiologist and intensive care specialist · Nigeria, Rwanda and Namibia

Prof Tobi has worked as an anaesthesiologist and intensive care doctor and as a teacher of medical students and specialists in Nigeria, Rwanda and Namibia. He has written study books for anaesthesia and intensive care trainees and has published research on intensive care, regional anaesthesia, pain after surgery and maternal care.

25+scientific publications, as stated on his editor profile (Google Scholar and ResearchGate list more than 20, according to Prof Tobi)
To comeConferences attended, to be shared by Prof Tobi
To comeCases attended, to be shared by Prof Tobi

Career

  • University of Namibia, School of Medicine: senior lecturer in 2021, and later associate professor according to his profile
  • Consultant anaesthesiologist and critical care physician, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
  • Has also worked at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, and Windhoek Central Hospital in Namibia
  • Secretary, Critical Care Society of Nigeria, and past Assistant Secretary of the Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists (as stated on his editor profile)
  • Supervises specialist trainees for the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons

Achievements

  • Wrote an anaesthesiology textbook for students in Nigeria, Rwanda and southern Africa (first edition 2011, second edition 2021, with exam questions from Nigeria, Rwanda and Europe)
  • Author of “Questions and Answers in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care” and the “ICU Pocket Book”, which his profile describes as the first ICU book by a Nigerian author
  • Author of book chapters on intensive care, including epidural pain relief in the ICU and trauma care in pregnancy

Training

  • Fellow, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria
  • Fellow, West African College of Surgeons
  • Critical care training after fellowship, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India

Selected publications

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Information comes from public pages: his Academia.edu profile, his editor profile on the Journal of Perioperative Medicine site and a news article from the Republikein newspaper in Namibia.

More pioneers

Dr Mpoki Ulisubisya

Anaesthesiologist and critical care physician · Tanzania

Former Permanent Secretary for Health and former Tanzanian High Commissioner to Canada. Past president of the Society of Anaesthesiologists of Tanzania and of CANECSA. Helped start Tanzania’s national open heart surgery programme and develop regional anaesthesia training. Executive Director of the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI).

Information comes from a public page of the Global Surgery Foundation.

Dr Frederic Mbanga

Anaesthesia and neurocritical care · Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI), Tanzania

Dr Respicious Boniface

Senior consultant anaesthesiologist and epidemiologist · JKCI, Tanzania

Works in trauma care and injury research, including road traffic injuries and traumatic brain injury.

Information comes from a public profile page.

Dr Henry Moses Mulungu

Anaesthesia · Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Tanzania

Prof Victor Mwafongo

Anaesthesia · Tanzania · now retired