Speaker Biographies

Charles Lwanga Mark Olweny

Professor Charles Olweny (M.B. PhD. M.Med., MD, FRACP) is Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of the Uganda Martyrs University. Previously, he served as Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine, Makerere University (1979-1982).

He serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors, St. Raphael of St Francis Hospital, Nsambya and is a member of the Governing Council of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), the Executive Board of the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Executive Committee & Governing Board of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Uganda Cancer Institute.

He has published over 120 articles in refereed journals and has written over 20 books and book chapters, primarily on cancer, quality of life, bioethics in developing countries, resource allocation and malaria.