Ponsiano Ocama is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University-Kampala. He trained as a Medical Doctor (MBChB) from Makerere University, Uganda in 1994. He later did his Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine at Makerere University in 2001. He then completed his PhD training at the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2011.