Dr. Willington Amutuhaire

Biography

Willington Amutuhaire is a board certified internal medicine physician and currently a cardiology fellow at Yale School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Willington obtained his medical degree from Makerere University School of Medicine under a merit-based government scholarship for science students in Uganda. He was subsequently awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship by the United Kingdom government to undertake a master's degree in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to moving to the United States, he spent eight years during medical school implementing health systems strengthening programs in difficult-to-reach areas of Uganda, focusing on HIV and non-communicable diseases. His research involves understanding cardiometabolic risk and the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in populations living with HIV, with publications in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Human Hypertension and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. Willington is interested in global health, particularly in reciprocal innovation approaches aimed at improving the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in resource-limited countries. He is also a proud senator (lord councilor) for Kampala Capital City Council in Uganda, advocating for improved air quality in the city and has received the International Visitor Leadership Program award from the U.S. Department of State.

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