Moses Isyagi, BDS (Mak), MMed (Mak) Pathology, FCPath (ECSA)

Moses Isyagi received his Bachelor of Dental Surgery and his Master of Medicine degrees from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He is a fellow for the College of Pathologists of East, Central, and Southern Africa (COPECSA). He previously taught at the University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Health Sciences and continues to mentor Junior colleagues and undergraduate medical students. He was instrumental in developing a proposed cytopathology training program between the University of Rwanda College of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His research interests include telepathology and automated diagnostic cytopathology reporting systems, head and neck pathology, practice management, and health professionals wellness.

Happenings

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ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:

Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.

The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.