Dr Eric Seruyange, University of Rwanda, Rwanda

Dr Eric Seruyange
Presentation title: Marburg outbreak Rwanda
Eric Seruyange is an internal medicine & Infectious disease physician and senior Lecturer and Program Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Rwanda, Director of Epidemiology and Public Health within the Rwanda Defence Forces, and the Head of Infectious Disease Clinic and Chair of the Institutional Review Board at the Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital, Member of Technical Working Group on malaria, tuberculosis, Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) of the Ministry of Health. He is the immediate past Director of Research and Clinical Education at the Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital.
Seruyange’s clinical and academic focus includes diagnostics and management of viral infections, especially emerging and re-emerging ones, oncogenic viruses and antimicrobial resistance. Seruyange is currently the lead of case management pillar – National Marburg virus Outbreak response and Coordinator of MVD Post-recovery program. He is also the Co-chair of the MPox outbreak National Command Post. He served as the lead manager of SARS-COV-2 at RMRTH and has worked with the World Health Organization during the Rwanda pilot for the validation of viral hepatitis B and C elimination. He s member of the Rwanda Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is postdoc research fellow on podoconiosis jointly at the University of Rwanda and at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS).