Dr. Michele Nabakka Kigozi is a multi-qualified medical professional with a broad range of advanced competencies that include major trauma, neuro anaesthesia, neurointensive care, general critical care medicine, paediatric anaesthesia and paediatric intensive care.
She is currently a Staff Physician at the Abu Dhabi-based Cleveland Clinic in the United Arab Emirates since March 2021.
The Spanish-educated Ugandan doctor holds an International Master in Donation and Transplantation of Organs Tissues and Cells, Medicine which she attained in 2021 from the Universität de Barcelona (UB), one of Spain’s leading research universities.
Michele’s core competencies include regional anaesthesia, including obstetrics, trauma and orthopaedics, neuro anaesthesia and neuro critical care, general critical care, organ donation and transplantation as well as advanced cardiac life support and basic life support among others.
She is the daughter of the renowned Dr. Maggie Kigozi and her late husband, Eng. Daniel Kigozi.
Michele began her medical career in London at the King’s College Hospital in November 2013 where she worked as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care until December 2015.
dfcu Bank and Monitor Publications Crown Season 7 Rising Woman Champions, Celebrating Uganda’s Top Women EntrepreneursShe then relocated from Europe to Asia and her career in the Arab world began in January 2016, at the Abu Dhabi-based Sheikh Khalifa Medical City where she served as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.
In May 2019 she joined Abu-Dhabi’s Mediclinic Hospital as a Consultant, Anaesthesia and Critical Care before moving to the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Dr. Michele also holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) from the University of Nottingham (Nottingham University) in the United Kingdom.
Her other education credentials include a Diploma in Organ Donation from Universität de Barcelona, as well as a European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine from UB.
She is also a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists as well as a member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
