A. PERSONAL DATA

 

Surname: Hakuzimana

First name: Alex

Sex: Male

Age:                 31 years

Country of birth: Rwanda

Marital status:  Single

Nationality:      Rwanda

Residency:       Rwanda

Mailing address: 

Nyarugenge District

Kigali City, Rwanda

P O Box 6471

Telephone: (250) 08 57 00 08

Email: alexhak75@gmail.com

Home page: www.mangosee.com/mangosteen/rwqol/rwqolhome.htm

 

B. HIGHER EDUCATION

 

1998- 2004: Degree of Doctor of Medicine in Human Medicine, National University of Rwanda Faculty of Medicine, Butare, Rwanda. Grade: Distinction.

1997-1998: Certificate of English with the School of Modern Languages, Department of English, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda

 

C. OTHER TRAININGS

 

27/07/2006: A course on Public Health Information Systems with the University of

Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and Tulane University School of 

Public Health and Tropical Medicine., USA (12 credits)

12/07/2006: A course on preparing a competitive grant application with the University of

Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and Tulane University School of

Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA (10 credits)

23/11/2005: Meta-analysis results suggest high-dose Vitamin E increases all-cause mortality

(0.5 credit).

14/09/2005: HIV management: the New York Course (0.25 credit)

Antiretroviral therapy: drug resistance and clinical pharmacology (1.25 credits)

23/08/2005-02/09/2005: Course training on management and care of people living with HIV/AIDS- Antiretroviral therapy

03 August 2005: Standard Days Method Online Training Course (2.4 credits)

07 July 2005: Management of Anaemia and Fatigue in an HIV-HCV-coinfected patient (1.25 credit)

09 June 2005: Highlights of the 6th Annual Clinical Team Conference of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2.75 credits)

09 May 2005: CV Writing Workshop Teleconference

08 April 2005: - HIV-related opportunistic infections and coinfections (0.75 credit)

- Managing Cardiovascular Risk in patients with HIV infection (1.00 credit)

08 February 2005: - Viral Liver Disease (1.25 credits)

- Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy (0.75 credit)

20 August 2004: - Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Considerations of once-daily dosing of antiretroviral drugs (1 credit)

- Multivitamin supplements can delay HIV progression (0.25 credit)

23 July 2004: Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors in the treatment of HIV: focus on safety (1.5 credits)

14 July 2004: - Adding zidovudine to nevirapine in infants at risk of HIV infection does not change outcome (0.25 credit)

- Rapid HIV testing feasible and accurate for women in labour (0.25 credit)

07 June 2004: Therapeutic challenges and new protease inhibitor options in the treatment of antiretroviral-naive patients (1 credit)

03 June 2004: - Antiretroviral drug sequencing: managing resistance across the continuum of care (1.5 credits)

- Nucleoside and nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors in the treatment of HIV: focus on safety (1.5 credits)

- Valacyclovir suppresses HIV-associated recurrent genital herpes (0.5 credit)

02 June 2004:  -Treatment of Cytomegalovirus retinitis in the era HAART (1 credit)

- Importance of asymptomatic shedding in the prevention and treatment of genital herpes (1 credit)

- Antiretroviral drugs and the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV (1credit)

01 June 2004: Treatment and management of HIV infection (1.25 credits)

31 May 2004: Clinical Science (1 credit)

24-28 March 2003: Health Economics Course

24 - 25 January 2001: Seminar on gender

 

D. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1. Type of research: Cross-sectional study on quality of life assessment in adults with HIV infection (thesis)

Country: Rwanda                                                                             

Period: 09/2004-09/2005

2. Type of research: Quality of life outcomes in adults with HIV/AIDS at late stage (Principal investigator).

Country: Rwanda                                                                              

Period: 09/2004-present

Publications: In Patient-Reported Outcomes Newsletter, N° 35, Fall Issue 2005.

3. Type of research: A multicountry study on psychological wellbeing (as a co investigator with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

Country: Rwanda                                                                      

Period: 09/2005-onwards

4. Type of research: Prevalence rates of tuberculosis and HIV co infection and the relevance of Mycobacterium bovis in Rwanda (with GTZ Health Sector in Rwanda).

Country: Rwanda

Period: 10/2005 onwards

 

E. PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Present Occupation: Technical Assistant/Researcher (Full-time)

Country: Rwanda

Employer: GTZ/ Rwanda      

Type of Organisation: Government

Main Responsibilities:

-          Coordinate and supervise all activities related to the study on prevalence rates of tuberculosis and HIV co infection and the relevance of Mycobacterium bovis in a Rwandan community.

-          Support the Technical Assistant and the Principal Technical Advisor upon request and when due.

2. 10/2005-02/2006:  Freelance consultant

Country: Rwanda

Employer: GTZ/Rwanda                                            

Type of Organisation: Government

Responsibilities: Coordinate and supervise all activities related to the study on prevalence rates of tuberculosis and HIV co infection and the relevance of M. bovis in a Rwandan community.

3. 04/2004-present: President/Researcher (part-time)

Country: Rwanda

Employer: Self-employment

Type of Organisation:  NGO

Main Responsibilities:

- All activities related to the study of my thesis.

- Pioneer and enhancer of quality of life promotion and patient-reported outcomes research in

  Rwanda as a young investigator convinced of the mission in collaboration with international

  experts in the field, we created an NGO, Rwanda Quality of Life of which I was elected its

  President- Cofounder and I am in charge of coordinating all its management related activities.

 

F. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

- President and Co-founder, Rwanda Quality of Life Centre (RWQOL)

- Member of the International Society for Equity in Heath (ISEqH).

- Member, International Society for Quality of Life Research 

   (ISOQOL)

- Member, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)

- Active Member and Country Representative, International Association for Hospice and

   Palliative Care (IAHPC)

- Member, Cochrane Patient-Reported Outcomes Methods Group (PRO MG).

- Link person, World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Group

- Member, International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS)

- Link person, International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA)

- Member, Australian Centre on Quality of Life (ACQOL)

- Member, International Wellbeing Group (IWG).

- Corresponding member of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)

 

G. RESEARCH-SPECIFIC SUMMARY

 

Pioneer and enhancer of quality of life promotion and patient-reported outcomes research in Rwanda as a young investigator convinced of the mission in collaboration with international experts and scientific networks in the field.

 

H. PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS

 

i. Quality of life assessment in people living with HIV/AIDS in the Treatment and Research AIDS Center (TRAC) HIV Clinic of Kigali, a cross-sectional study. Presented at the 7^th Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 17-20 July 2006.

ii. Quality of life outcomes in adults with HIV infection at late stage (preliminary results)”, the XIII World Congress of Psychiatry at Cairo, Egypt, September 10-15, 2005.

iii. Quality of life assessment in HIV patients, the 2004 Annual Rwanda Medical Association Conference (January 2004)

 

I. PUBLICATIONS

 

1. Hakuzimana A, Francis EL, Cummins R. Quality of life outcomes in adults with HIV infection at late stage (Progress report). PRO Newsletter. 2005, 35: 19-22.

J. AWARDS

1. MAPI Research Trust, Catherine Pouget research award 2004 (award intended to encourage young investigators to study the impact of quality of care on, or improve the quality of life of the terminally ill), August 2004.

2. Inge Genefke and Bent Sorensen’s Anti Torture Support Foundation (Travel grants to VIII European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Berlin, Germany, (2003).

K. OTHERS

-  Review the workshop submissions within the Workshop Review Committee for the ISPOR  

   8th European Congress, November 6-8, 2005

- Abstract reviewer for the 2005 and 2006 ISOQOL Annual meetings.

-  Member of Organizing Committee for 2006 ISOQOL annual conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

-  Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Symposium on Infectious

    Diseases, Kigali, Rwanda

 

L.  PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES

 

Mother tongue: Kinyarwanda

 Other languages: Listening, understanding, speaking fluency in English and French

 Basic user of Latin.

 Computer skills: Competent with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, web design, internet, basic network maintenance, SPSS and Epiinfo.

 

 

Dr Alex Hakuzimana.

Kigali, 31 July 2006.